Making merged pages of stuff in wiki

[Gota]

It would be very comfortable if aside from having lua documentation broken into several links in the wiki we would also have a single page with all the documentation about lua pasted together.
This would enable a user to use the search function on a page when he needs to find out what a certain function does or any other detail explained in the documentations.
Newbies that are trying to learn don't always know what category their function belongs to and it would be more comfortable for such newbies to have a page where they can quickly find the function they need (using the browsers search)explanations about,instead of opening and searching several pages each time they want to learn about some detail.

same could be applied to other stuff like cegs documentation for example.
It doesn't have to be edited smartly just all of it in one place(would also allow to search for words that might be in the description etc.

This is not some major thing but if added would help save some time and make the task just a bit less tedious.

[zwzsg]

No. We already have enough confused newbies using unsynced commands in synced and vice-versa.

[SeanHeron]

(written pre Z's reply):
It's a good point I think - I know some of what you said applied to me when I started messing with Lua (of course you could argue that forcing people to understand what the different parts are is good ).

Anyhows, in regular mediawiki this is easy enough - you just use the pages we have now as "templates" that you include one after the other on your "superpage". I'll look into whether that works on the derelict Mediawiki we're running here.

[SinbadEV]

I like the idea... I'm wondering if there is a media-wiki trick to do so...

/me researches

oh cool... It's called "transclusion" and you do it like this:

{{NameSpace:PageName}}

so for things in the default namespace you use an empty, like for example:

{{:Lua_ConstGame}} would include what's shown on http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_ConstGame...


I did it on the sandbox and it worked.

note: if you fail to specify a namespace it assumes "Template"

So

{{Blah}} would try to include "Template:Blah"

edit: also might want to edit the pages being included with <noinclude></noinclude> tags around some headers and categories and such so they are not rendered when the page is transcluded.

[SeanHeron]

Example (using CEG pages): http://springrts.com/wiki/CEG-Allpages
(note the headlines are optional of course...).

Edit: the question that stays open is how you link to these "superpages" - ie where in the wikis/site structure you want to include them (and there I'd tend to agree with Z on the Lua-issue - now users are forcibly made aware that the functions must have some kind of difference :D).