Charleswood Historical Society:Structure of this wiki
This wiki contains images and pages that are grouped in Collections. Collections form a hierarchy, so that anything that is e.g. in the "Churches/Religious" collection is also in the "Buildings" collection.
Useful Pages
Find all of the Special Pages at Special:SpecialPages
Upload files with Special:Upload
Find all pages at Special:AllPages
Create a wiki account at Special:CreateAccount
Find a list of all uploaded files at Special:ListFiles
Assigning a page to a collection
Option 1:
- enter the page name in the spot below and assign any relevant categories:
Option 2:
- go to the page
- click the edit link
- click the "insert" dropdown
- click "Template"
- start typing "CollectedIn" and choose that option
- type the collection you want to assign the page to
- click "insert"
- add additional collections the same way
- save
Option 3:
- edit the page
- add {{CollectedIn}}
- save the page
- click "edit with form" and use the dropdown to pick the collection
Adding a new collection
- Make a collection page by entering the name of the collection here:
- assign the new collection to a parent collection if applicable using the form:
- add the collection to the template hierarchy by editing Template:CollectedIn
- Re-create the table to update the hierarchy:
- in template, click the "Recreate data" tab
- uncheck the "Recreate data into a replacement table, keeping the old one for querying"
- click OK
- wait 1 minute for process to complete (you can click on "View replacement table" link to check progress
Some queries will not show a collection unless it has at least one item in it.
Adding an image
I wonder if there is a way to automatically add the template...
- Upload the image
- Add Template:Image description to annotate the image: add
{{Image description}}
to the description field - Save
- "Edit with form" to annotate the image and add it to relevant collections
Remaining tasks
- make a way to find all images that are not annotated with description template; it is now empty
No results
- automatic addition of template code to e.g. image uploads: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NamespacePreload
- or it might be possible to build a pageform for this; asked for example at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Page_Forms#Special:UploadWindow_example?
- check if I can add the hierarchy definition to a template instead of editing it in the Template:CollectedIn - that would also allow turning new things into redlinks to start the new collection that way.
- should the search automatically include the CHS namespace? Most users shouldn't actually see it, so likely not. But it should search the file namespace and now does.
- we might want to take the project namespace back out of that, since kiosk visitors should not by default see that content.
- we likely should have put the "editing" page into the "Charleswood Historical Society:" namespace so it won't show in user searches; can still do that once Eileen and Myron are more familiar with the wiki, don't want to cause confusion now