Four Questions: Categories, Redirect, URL length and embed

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dannes 03 Jul 2009 11:36

Question 1: In MediaWiki there is a possibility to give one site more than one category. They use this tag [[category:xyz]] - is there any similar feature in this wiki?
Question 2: Is there a way to redirect intern links? I found this module http://www.wikidot.com/doc:redirect-module but the redirected pages are anyhow in "list-all-pages". Is there an other way to redirect pages?
Question 3: Maximum URL length is 60 characters. Is there are possibility to change this?
Question 4: I want do embed Videos from http://www.hausgemacht.tv - is there any possibility to do this?

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.hausgemacht.tv/scripts/ufo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.hausgemacht.tv/index.php?Action=showVideoPlayerStandalone&vid=1172&node_id=83"></script>

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Re: Four Questions: Categories, Redirect, URL length and embed

RobElliott 03 Jul 2009 12:15

Let's start with question 4 first:

Yes, even though there is no wikidot [[embed]]..[[/embed]] syntax for this particular player (unlike for example Vimeo) you can put it into your page by using an html codeblock and iframe combination. First put a codeblock on your page containing the script, like this:

[!--
[[code type="HTML"]]
<html>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.hausgemacht.tv/scripts/ufo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.hausgemacht.tv/index.php?Action=showVideoPlayerStandalone&vid=1172&node_id=83"></script>

</body>
</html>
[[/code]]
--]

Then you reference that codeblock with an iframe:

[[iframe http://YOURSITE.wikidot.com/YOURPAGE/code/1 frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="400px" height="350px"]]

The url above has a /code/1 in it if the codeblock is the first/only codeblock on that page. For the second you would use /code/2 etc.

The result is this:

Rob

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RobElliott 03 Jul 2009 12:25

Question 3: the 60 character limit on the page name has been set by the developers

Rob

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Re: Four Questions: Categories, Redirect, URL length and embed

gerdami 03 Jul 2009 12:31

Question 1: In MediaWiki there is a possibility to give one site more than one category. They use this tag [[category:xyz]] - is there any similar feature in this wiki?

Yes, you can.
1. Create a page category:xyz with the following content

[[module Backlinks]]

which will list all pages that belong to the category:xyz
2. On each page belonging to category:xyz, add at the bottom [[[category:xyz|category:xyz]]] which will be displayed category:xyz. You can add as many category:xyz, category:zut as you want on the same page.

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Helmuti_pdorf 03 Jul 2009 15:14

Question 3: Maximum URL length is 60 characters. Is there are possibility to change this?

1. There is a difference between URL - lenght and "Page Name" !!!

The "Page Name" has a maximum of 60 characters! And "Page Name" is the last part of the URL !

( inclusive a possible namespace/category before the "Page Name" .

2. "Page Name" is not equivalent the page title..

Please - do not make page names long - only because you need a long title!

3. "Page Name" is the unix-part of the page - definition (index) in the database - where all the page sources are stored.

Hope this makes it clear?

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dannes 03 Jul 2009 19:52

Thank you for the answers!

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