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The general wiki editing space has no predetermined hierarchy of pages and sub-pages^[1].This has the advantage of providing wiki editors with considerable flexibility in determining the structure of the wiki but has the disadvantage that it can be hard to find pages and it can be difficult to decipher relationships between pages.

However, when authoring online course content in a wiki we recommend that you:

1. use sub-pages to reflect the logical hierarchy to the materials you are developing, and
2. familiarize yourself with the Mediawiki software features to find related pages you or others have created.

In this section we will use the analogy of a 'family tree' of two generations to represent the hierarchical structure of a course website. In this wiki to WordPress model, a course website is restricted to three hierarchical levels and in the explanations that follow we will refer to:

• parent pages,
• children pages, and
• grandchildren pages.

Setting up sub-pages in the wiki

Description

Outline page
In the context of this course, an 'Outline page' is a page in the wiki that lists the collection of sub-pages of a course site that will be published to WordPress using the snapshot process.

Mediawiki software features to track pages

Notes

1. ↑ With the exception of the wiki 'namespaces' like the template namespace (indicated by Template:Name_of_template in the wiki URL), or the user namespace (indicated by User:Username in the wiki URL)