Wikieducator tutorial/Thinking about Structure/Subpages

If you look at the title of this page you will notice that it is called: Wikieducator tutorial/Thinking about Structure/Subpages. Thinking about Structure is the title of this particular tutorial in the Wikieducator Tutorial, and Subpages is the name of the page within the tutorial that we are currently on. The page entitled Subpages can be thought of as a child of the Thinking about Structure page, which in turn is a subpage (or child) of the greater Wikieducator tutorial page/project.

Making a new link that begins with a / (slash) is the common way to start a subpage. The page to which this link points is considered "subordinate" to its host page, and is titled and linked as Parentpage/Subpage. It is possible to create a subpage of a subpage (or a sub-subpage). At the top of each subpage or sub-subpage, you can find a backlink (aka breadcrumb) to the higher levels of the page.

Making Subpages
If you wanted to create a subpage called Tiger from the parent page called Big Cats you would:


 * 1) make sure you are on the parent page node, in this example Big Cats, then
 * 2) create a new wiki page in the normal way by using the two square brackets but precede the new page name with a slash ("/"). For example:

 /Tiger 

This will display the link with the slash ("/") like this: /Tiger, which may be a bit confusing to some readers.

There are two ways you can fix this. Either
 * 1) Add an extra slash:  /Tiger/  at the end of your link (which "tells" the wiki software not to display the preceding slash) or
 * 2) create a piped link, for example:  Tiger . This is useful when the page link contains a number of slash arguments, or you want to display a more descriptive title to the user. Both of these methods will result in a link like this:

/Tiger/ This is actually a subpage of the current page.