http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Duplicator

I'm using it and it works quite well.

Laurent
http://www.wikimini.org


2009/10/12 Tony Molloy <[email protected]>

> On Friday 09 October 2009 19:06:41 Daniel Barrett wrote:
> > It's worth mentioning that on a real wiki, you want to do as little
> copying
> > as possible.
> >
> > If a piece of information is found on Page X, and you copy it to Page Y,
> > then pages X and Y are now dependent on each other. If you change one,
> you
> > have to remember to update the other or else it goes out of date.
> >
>
> That's not quite what I wanted. This is basically a test Wiki. I have 1
> page
> which has become very large with lots of sections. What I was thinking of
> was
> making several copies of the page and then editing each separately to only
> leave the sections I wanted..
>
> A bit of cut-and-paste did the job and I learned to plan my pages better in
> future ;-)
>
> Tony
>
> > In real life, on a wiki you want to maintain properly, you would use a
> > different approach. Here are several:
> >
> > * Link from page Y to page X
> > * Pull the information from page X into page Y automatically, using
> > transclusion * Make a template and transclude into both pages X and Y
> >
> > Copying should be your last resort. It is the death of good information
> > resources.
> >
> > DanB
> >
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