The Kim Stanley Robinson Encyclopedia:Wiki Development
From The Kim Stanley Robinson Encyclopedia
I've been looking around at a few other wikis, and I've noticed quite a few nifty tips and tricks that have been implemented. I thought we could use this page to present things that we may have found that could be useful to implement on this site. Sometimes it'll just be a matter of copying what they've done, but other times there may be some figuring out what's going on.
A Wiki-based forum
This is pretty cool: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Forum:Council. Not an immediate priority for us, but nice to know that it can be done.
Infobox code
This is probably a good habit to get into. See this template and note how they include the appropriate page code on the relevant Discussion page Good idea! Means you always know where to look when pasting a multi-parameter template into a page.
- Update: Even better, just use <noinclude></noinclude> tags and put the usage code right on the template page. Like this!
Recent Changes subsets
I thought we were stuck with the Special:Recentchanges page being a summary of the entire site, but here you can see an implentation of how to make it only display a sub-group. Cool. I'll have to try this for the Mars sub-project:
- Recent Changes for Mars stuff
- Sweeet!
I'm hoping this will work for New Articles too:
- Newest Mars Articles
- Damn. Not quite. There's got to be a way, so we'll figure it out somehow.
