@Warin Can you illustrate or explain the differences between editing a "template" and editing a simple page? When you save your edited version of the new page does it become a template?
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:12 AM Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > This is what I do .. it works and leaves the original page alone... > > 1) get the "car" template > On the page you want to copy Click on "edit Source" - Copy all of it and > paste it over to your your word processor as a new document. > Exit out out this "Edit Source" without saving "cancel" I think is it - > so it stays the same. > > 2) edit the template > Now in your word processor find and replace all the "car" and replace with > "caravan". Perform similar edits here - much easier than the editor you may > not be familiar with on the wiki. > When your finished here ... > > > 3) create the new page > Type the title of the page you want to create in the wiki search box ... > It will come up with a suggestion to create the page you want .. click on > that and you have started to create the new page :) > Copy all of the stuff you have on your word processor page over to the new > page (copy and paste) .. and save it ... Done. > > On 07/01/19 11:23, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > Haha, Graeme. I am in the same boat when it comes to adding anything to > the Wiki. Welcome to the arcane world of Wiki editing. I don't have an > answer to your question. I only want to sympathize. > > Dave > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:35 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Recently asked what to tag some things as, including a business selling >> caravans. >> >> On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 at 02:37, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 16:36 +1000, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: >>> >>> >>> & yards dedicated to caravan sales? I can find shop=car >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop=car, which says it's a >>> place that sells cars, buses or trucks. Perhaps shop=caravan? >>> >>> >>> Shop=caravan has over 100 uses, so why not? >>> >> >> With fear & trepidation :-) I am about to try & create a page >> shop=caravan, then put it up for further discussion. >> >> I know this has been discussed before, but I'm still unclear on the >> details (& from previous discussions, a lot of other people are as well :-() >> >> The page would be fairly similar to shop=car >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dcar, so that sounds like >> a good basis to start with. >> >> If I just open that page, "Edit source", change value=car to >> value=caravan, then save that, I'm fairly sure that will create a >> shop=caravan page ready for further editing, but will the original shop=car >> page still exist? >> >> Is there a better way to create a new page? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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