Wiki Admin Discussion

Hi David, thanks for your questions. I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I am out of the office but that I'll respond in-depth to your questions in the next couple of days. The quick answer to the first question is that there is no easy way to provide rights for you to delete pages. Page deletions is something that the MediaWiki platform makes into a bit of a difficult task and only users with a super admin rights (which extend across all of the UBC Wiki) can actually delete anything. You can add the script {{delete}} to a page and, as long as no one contests the deletion, the page will be deleted in about a month. If you need pages to be deleted quicker than that, you can let me know or you can send an email to wikisupport@exchange.ubc.ca and we can take care of it for you.

As far as the DPL question, it seems like it should be possible but I'll have to take a closer look to see how to do it. I'll follow up with you in a day or two.

Best,

Will - WikiAdministrator 22:04, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

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Hi David,

Here's what I came up with regarding creating a list of top level subpages via dpl:

<dpl> 
titlematch=MATH110/003/%
nottitlematch=MATH110/003/%/%
replaceintitle=$MATH110/003/$, 
namespace=Course
shownamespace=false
columns=3
rowcolformat=width=30%
includesubpages=true
</dpl>

which generates this list:

Please let me know if this is the functionality for which you were looking. I know that you have some familiarity with dpl but please also let me know if I can explain this a bit more.

Best,

Will - WikiAdministrator 20:13, 20 October 2010 (UTC)