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:

1. go to the page
2. click the edit link
3. click the "insert" dropdown
4. click "Template"
5. start typing "CollectedIn" and choose that option
6. type the collection you want to assign the page to
7. click "insert"
8. add additional collections the same way
9. 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

1. 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:

2. add the collection to the template hierarchy by editing Template:CollectedIn
3. Re-create the table to update the hierarchy:
   1. in template, click the "Recreate data" tab
   2. uncheck the "Recreate data into a replacement table, keeping the old one for querying"
   3. click OK
   4. 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...

1. Upload the image
2. Add Template:Image description to annotate the image: add {{Image description}} to the description field
3. Save
4. "Edit with form" to annotate the image and add it to relevant collections