[Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

[greg at freephile.com (Greg Rundlett (freephile))]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Gordon Marx <gcmarx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> <greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> > documentation.  For products with different models or version releases,
> you
> > can maintain the documentation for each version.  Things like theming the
>
> What do you do for version-based documentation? Do you have the
> version number in the page title? If so, do you create new
> version-number pages to carry forward unchanged documentation from
> earlier versions? Do you age out documentation from old versions?
>

I start with the *Collection* extension.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection

I don't have my recipe handy, but IIRC I start a new namespace for the next
version and use a template to include (transclude) the document from the
prior version (namespace) as a starting point for the whole article set.
Then you have to begin editting.

Greg Rundlett
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