[Mediawiki-l] "Index" extension for MW?

Mon Jun 19 20:18:16 UTC 2006

We would very much like some way of building true "indexes" to our MW 
site. In particular, we'd like to be able to do something like this 
(only at the "top level" of a page is needed, not enclosed in other 
markup):

[[Index:Civil War]]

This would automatically create a "Civil War" entry in the index table 
(if one did not already exist), and would create a link back to not just 
the page containing the index markup, but also to the position on the 
page where the 'Index' statement occurred. (A different syntax might be 
preferable, but that's a minor point :-) ).

This is much easier than creating each category page manually, and is (I 
think) much more useful for finding particular pieces on info within 
large pages. It really fulfills a different function that do categories.

Any suggestions appreciated,
Ken