[Wiki-dev] Enabling Subpages in Mediawiki?

[Bill Traynor]

Tim Bird wrote:
> Bill Traynor wrote:
>   
>> Therefore, my question is should we enable subpages in at the very least 
>> the Main namespace?
>>
>> I have noted many pages that exist already with a '/' in the page name 
>> already. 
>>     
>
> Yes.  Please do this.
>   
Done.  Enabled for (main), Talk, and User.  I've installed the 
SubPageList3 extension to make use of the subpages.  To list subpages on 
a page add the following:

<splist
 parent=
 showparent=yes
 sort=desc
 sortby=title
 liststyle=ordered
 showpath=no
 kidsonly=no
 debug=0
/>

More on this extension is available here: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList3

I've added an example usage on the BeagleBoard page here:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard#Subpages
> I used sub-pages for CELF project proposals (on the advice
> of David Anders (prpplague)), and it would be nice to have
> backlinks on these pages.  I manually added these all to
> a single category, but that's categories are a cumbersome
> way to navigate.
>
> Does enabled sub-pages have any other affect?
>   
Only that people will tend to create subpages when Categories would be 
better.  But this is a matter of opinion, of course.
> I might consider this for the Android section of the site.
>  -- Tim
>
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> Tim Bird
> Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
> Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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