Organizing Wiki Pages
Use the FrontPage (home page) to communicate where you want your readers to go. This is the first page they see after logging in.
On the FrontPage, you might say:
To view more about this wiki, see RecentActivity page, or the SideBar page in the tabbed navigation bar on your right. The RecentActivity page will show you the most recent changes to the wiki. The SideBar will show you important pages you need to see. If you have any questions, you can always email me.
Place links to important pages in the SideBar by clicking on its tab and clicking on the Edit link at the bottom of the SideBar.
In editing mode, you'll see that the recent pages you created are on the right side. Click on the page name and it'll create a link in the SideBar page you are editing. You can also create a link to the page manually. See WikiStyle and AdvancedWikiStyle for page link tips.
Finally, one more piece of advice for keeping a wiki organized so no pages are lost.
Don't use the "New Page" button unless you need to create a template.
Instead, create new pages by forming links to them while editing an existing page. For example, if you want to create the page "Cool Stuff", edit an index page or the Side Bar and type in [Cool Stuff] or CoolStuff.
Either of these will create a red link in the existing page when you save it. To finish creating the page, just click on the new link you created. The new page will open and you can now edit it.
Following this advice makes certain that you can always easily follow links from one page to another in your wiki.
To find "orphaned pages" (pages that are not linked to any other page), go to the bottom of your wiki and click on "Show All Pages".
Every page in a wiki should link to at least one other page. This makes an unbroken chain of pages so that if you do this, you shouldn't have to use the "Show all pages" link to find a hidden or orphaned page. Once you reach a certain number of pages, you will probably have to use the search box to find them quickly.
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