Ok, and as often happens as soon as I ask a question, I stumble across a search term that gets me the answer!
So, to answer my own question (and to help anyone else who is trying to organize their own wiki), here's what I had to do: Look at all of the pages in Special:AllPages and then, within the text of each page, insert [[Category:NAME]] to create the category tag. To view all of the categories, go to Special:Categories And yes, they're all automatically generated. Thank goodness! ~P -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:28 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] MediaWiki help Hi everyone: I'm wrestling with trying to figure out the best way to organize our MediaWiki installation and make the pages findable by our users (currently, a total of 15 people - our staff). We're using the wiki for helping us develop and outline our workflows, but a lot of users are having trouble finding the pages, or knowing the full scope of information available on the wiki. SO. I want to have a list of all of the pages currently created, with a link in the sidebar. I finally figured out how to modify the sidebar, but I can't figure out what link I would use to point to an index showing all of the pages currently created. Is this automatically generated by MediaWiki or something I need to create manually and update as each page is created? Based on the bits of information I've been able to find about this, I'm also thinking I will need to define some Categories. But I'm not sure how to start going about that. Do I need to install a plugin to allow us to add Category Tags, or is it a settings thing? Likewise, would the Portal:Categories page be automatically generated? I don't have the language to even know how to search for answers so maybe one of you has already done this... Thanks once again in advance for your help. Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357 Fax: 510-849-3673 http://www.magnes.org http://www.musematic.org http://www.mediaandtechnology.org _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.62/2168 - Release Date: 06/11/09 05:53:00
