On 2013-02-12 12:55 AM, "S Page" <sp...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > 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].
It should be noted that that doesnt work out of the box but needs lucene/MWSearch extension. For subpages to really fill this use case I think the page title would have to show only (or primarily emphasize) the subpage name instead of the full page name. Also it sounds like in such a use case, one would want links to be relative to the current path first. If on page a/b/c you would want [[foo]] to link to a/b/foo if it exists and link to just foo if that page does not exist. I think a good take away from this thread is that mediawiki has a lot of featuters that almost fit the bill but don't quite fully. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
