Need help from an experience wiki user

[bubba]

This morning, I installed the "wikidrops" automatic breadcrumb system.

This is working well in most cases, but there are exceptions.

If you go into Organisations / Clubs, the breadcrumb shows:

Main Page < Caving Regions of the UK and Eire < Mendip < Clubs

This is not desirable, as it implies that Clubs is a sub-page of Mendip.

I presume that this happened because the Clubs page was first linked to from the Mendip page.

The big question is, is there anyway of changing the category hierarchy so that the breadcrumb shows:

Main Page < Organisations < Clubs

I did try to achieve this today but it didn't work, so have undone what I did!

 

[bubba]

Ok, after some research I think I've answered this myself:

MediaWiki doesn't really have a concept of "parent page" - it's not a
hierarchical structure. That said, there is limited support for a
"sub-pages" system, which is disabled by default for the main
namespace to encourage a "web" rather than "tree" structure, which was
deemed to be much more useful (specifically, in the context of an
encyclopedia, but the same arguments apply to many other projects
too).

Also see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_case_against_subpages

In light of this, I have removed the breadcrumbs extension as adhering to a strict hierarchy in the wiki will ruin the spontaneous way that authors create pages.

 

[Cave_Troll]

what i started doing in the Peak district was to manualy add this back as far as "peak District".
This seemed to me to make sense as you were browsing through caves.
It seems to have been spread to the other regions...

 

[andymorgan]

Robin's excellent work http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php/topic,2683.0.html

 

[Cave_Troll]

after a slighty jerky start involving removing the 3 areas in the peak that we'd started on
Still all sorted now...

 

[cucc Paul]

This site might be worth looking at for help/inspiration for your wiki

http://muddydragons.co.uk

If you click on "about the club" at the top of the page you enter our wiki site... which is also part of our index page but not acsessable, like you we've not been running it too long and its still growing/evolving after an initial push which saw lots and lots of pages added quickly were now correcting bits especially under SRT. Chris Morgan manages most of the tech stuff. 

 

[bubba]

That's really good - nice one