William van Zwanenberg schrieb:
>>> As far as I have correctly understood, you'll have to create some templates.
>
> That being the case, a number of questions arise:
>
> 1. How do I create a template? Does the MediaWiki website include a tutorial
> of some sort? I assume to create one involves some PHP and XHTML programming
> which whilst I am capable of this, I don't want to have to do unless
> unavoidable.
>
> 2. Can I assign specific templates for each of my category pages? For
> example, I want to create in my wiki a category called "biographies" so this
> would inevitably result in artcile pages such as: "Biography:Joe_Bloggs" and
> "Biography:Josephine_Bloggs".
> I'd want both artciles pages to have the same format - that is for them
> to be laid out exactly the same way and for them to include a floating box
> with a portrait photography and some basic biographical data such as DoB,
> name, place opf birth, gender - that sort
> of thing.
>
> My question then is how could i creat just such a template so that all
> biography pages appeared the same?
>
> 3. The use of templates implies the need to create corresponding forms that
> editors (wiki users creating content) then use to input data and which then
> ensure that the right data appears in the right place on the resultant
> created artcile page. If this is so, has is it achieved? Having just
> installed version 1.15.1 of the wiki software running under a XAMPP
> architecture on a Windows sandbox, I've found that by default the same basic
> form appears when one trys to creat *any* page for any category or any
> namespace. Cleraly there needs to be different forms for different templates
> and each template (and associated form) need to correspond with the desired
> look for the category of page.
>
> 4. How, in practice does wikipedia do this? In order to acheive a consistent
> look, presumably different templates are used for each class of article. Are
> extensions used to create these template and (presumably their corresponding
> forms).
>
> I'm really worried that what I'm trying to do will involve a lot of work on
> my part - particularly in terms of programming - and I really don't want to
> have to engage in this unless absolutely necessary.
>
> I really like the look at feel of the monobook skin and it's various page
> elements. If possible, I'd like to use these in my own wiki. Does anyone know
> if they're publicly available - i,.e., are the templates available to
> download and can i use them myself or or they copyrighted.
>
> I apologise for baraging you with question but I really want to know how this
> all works ...
No no no. It is in fact very easy to create a template, and in fact it's
what is used on those articles at wikipedia (although wikipedia
templates can reach high grades of complexity).
For example, you go to the page Template:Biography and write:
{| style="float: right"
| Names || {{{name}}}
|-
| Age || {{{age}}}
|}
This is just a wiki table floating at the right. But in the place where
I'd put the person name I put the name of the variable in tribple curly
braces.
Then at Biography:Joe_Bloggs you include
{{Biography
|name=Joe Bloggs
|age=10
}}
Joe Bloggs is a young blogger that...
In the place where you placed {{Biography... }} the content of
Template:Biography is placed instead, with {{{name}}} substituted by the
value we have given it (Joe Bloggs) and {{{age}}} with 10.
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