[Mediawiki-l] categories and orphans

Wed Aug 24 06:54:02 UTC 2005

Bob Marinier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm adding content to a new wiki for a research project, and one of the 
> things we want to do is have lists of useful publications, organized 
> into various categories (some publications may be in multiple 
> categories).  Each publication will have it's own page with an 
> abstract.  It seems that MediaWiki's category feature is perfect for 
> this kind of thing, except for one issue -- the publications pages 
> aren't linked to/from anywhere, so they all appear as orphans.  This 
> really clutters the orphans list, making it impossible to tell what the 
> "real" orphans are.
> 
> Does anyone know of a good workaround to this problem?  The only thing I 
> can think of is creating a dummy page which links to all of the 
> publications pages, but that's such a hack!

I don't understant how you are creating you pages. They 
should have at least one parent :-?

usually only deletion of pages creates orphans.

anyway, I use to write my docs first from my own personal 
page before linking it from the rest of the wiki. you can 
even use a sub-page of your page for that.
jdd

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