On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Barrett <d...@vistaprint.com> wrote:
> ...
> 1. A desire for a department to have "their own space" on the wiki.
I assume you looked at enabling subpages in the main namespace?[1]
That way Human Resources/Payroll/Show_me_the_money gets a nice
breadcrumb up to Payroll and Human Resources landing pages. You can
encourage people to create subpages rather than making yet another
top-level page by putting [Create page] forms on landing pages that
use a local template[2] and prepend the local hierarchy.
> I'm not talking about access control, but (1) customized look & feel, and (2)
> ability to narrow searches to find articles only within that space.
(1) Code could infer subpage hierarchy and apply CSS from a
corresponding CSS hierarchy.
(2) Add prefix: to the searches to search subpages, you can make a
form for it[3]. Also Special:PrefixIndex can be helpful, e.g. just
listing all subpages of the current landing page:
== Subpages of {{FULLPAGENAME}}==
{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
Cheers,
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages
[2] something like
<inputbox>
type=create
preload=Template:Human Resources meeting
buttonlabel=Create a new page for a Human Resources meeting
default=Human Resources/Meetings/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}
width=40
bgcolor=#f0f0ff
</inputbox>
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Search_box and similar.
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