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" collection is also in the "Buildings" collection.

Assigning a page to a collection

• 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

Remaining tasks

• change so edit links don't show up unless logged in

• find out why Caron family again doesn't list items; I need to test this with collection pages, and collections of collections.

• fix problem with St. Mary's Anglican Church and presumably other pages with apostrophes in them, need to escape those...

• check a replacetext for all "todo"s left anywhere