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
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