Hi All, I only briefly scanned the thread but the labeled section transclusion extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion) is most likely what you are looking for.
Maybe when we migrate to the new server we can add it if there is enough interest. Cheers Rob On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Scott -- > > Yip -- transclusion is a very powerful feature of the Mediawiki software! > > I see what you're trying to do with the case study examples. I had a bash > transcluding a subsection as in "{{:Foo/Bar#summary}}" -- but this doesn't > work --- it pulls in the full page. Perhaps you can find a work around > using the <include> and <noinclude> tags, but suspect that this would not > work in your specific application. > > However, with a little smart design using subpages etc, you could create > flexible alternatives, eg: > > on the Case Study A page, you could transclude: > > {{:Case Study A/Summary}} > {{:Caste StudyA/Body}} > {{:Case Study A /Examples}} > > This would present the full case study on the Case Study A page. Note that > Summary, Body and Examples are subpages of Case Study A. > > However on the Case study summary page you could transclude as follows: > > {{:Case Study A/Summary}} > {{:Case Study B/Summary}} > > Hope this helps. > > Wayne > > > > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 11:43 -0800, Scott Newson wrote: > > Wow, I didn't know this was possible... and it's exactly what I was looking > for. Thanks Gladys! > > The most immediate limitation I see is that only one set of markings is > possible for any given page. So doesn't seem possible to transclude > different parts of a page to different pages. For example, if I had multiple > articles each covering a case study for my project, it would seem to be > possible to make a single page with a collection of the introductory > summaries of all the case studies by putting the intro summaries in include > brackets. But say I now wanted to make a page summarizing all the materials > used in each case study, I don't see a way to markup the original articles > so that I can pull the intro summaries to one pages and the material lists > to another page. > > Perhaps it would be possible to specify sections by calling a transclusion > on a specific section. > For example: {{:Foo/Bar#summary}} > I'll try this sometime, but it would be neat if someone already knew. > > Thanks, > Scott > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Gladys Gahona <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is part of my last post on : WE (mathematics) efforts need to go > beyond another "Wikipedia repeat" > > Content was out of topic so I decided to create a new discussion. > > You said: "It would be great if we could develop a few examples of > transclusion (i.e. creating pages / courses which are remixed from > other pages in the wiki). mmmm - As our wiki-design experience > matures we could think about developing a tutorial on remixing > resources for effective learning." > > I've been making some tests for transclusion > Please go to my "testing lab" :-) : > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808/My_sandbox > > I guess this is what you are talking about. Is it? > I would be happy to join the team for developing the tutorial. :-) > > Cheers, > Gladys Gahona > User:Chela5808 > > > > > > > > > -- Robert Kruhlak Burnaby, BC CANADA (M) +1 778 230 1875 (E) [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
