EDT4OL/Snapshot/Wiki subpages

The general wiki editing space does not have a predetermined hierarchy of pages and sub-pages.This has the advantage of providing wiki editors with considerable flexibility in determining the structure of the wiki but also has the disadvantages that it can be hard to find pages and it can be difficult to decipher the interrelationships between pages.

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

1. use sub-pages to reflect the logical hierarchy of the materials you are developing, and
2. familiarize yourself with the Mediawiki software features to help find and keep track of 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 publishing 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 a WordPress site using the snapshot process.

The 'Outline page' will become the parent page for its respective children and grandchildren.

Wiki markup to create sub-pages

The standard markup to create a sub-page is based on the use of forward slashes (/) to distinguish parents from their children and grandchildren. So for example, the 'Grandchild page' can be created as follows:

[[Parent/Child/Grandchild|Grandchild page]]

Notes

• 'Grandchild page' is the display link text (Pipe)
• The page: 'Grandchild' is a child of the child sub-page
• The page: Child, is a child of the parent page