From EnviroWiki
Indexing EnviroWiki entries efficiently will help keep EnviroWiki tidy and easy to use. It will also help others to find your entry more effectively.
Creating new entries on EnviroWiki (like other Mediawiki wikis) works by first searching for your page to ensure it does not already exist. Then, when the search comes back with no results, follow the instructions to 'create this page'. See here for more help creating a new EnviroWiki entry.
Because of this way of working, it is much easier to pick the name before you begin writing the text for the entry. If you do make a mistake, or want to change the name of the page after you've begun writing, see 'Changing the name of an EnviroWiki entry' (below).
Indexing is most crucial for the Local Action key category, but will be useful for all entries.
Indexing Local Action entries
If your entry on local action has a specific area that it applies to, we ask that you put it at the beginning of the name of your entry. For example, recycling points in the postal area BD4 would have the name 'BD4 recycling points'. Another example might be an entry that outlines the environmental policies of your local council. In this case, put the name of the local council at the beginning of your entry followed by details of the content. For example, 'Croydon London Borough Council - Recycling collection'.
Indexing other EnviroWiki entries
For all other EnviroWiki content, we have not yet put in place set guidelines, so please just label it as you think best and don't be offended if we have to change it later.
Changing the name of an EnviroWiki entry
There are two stages involved in changing the name of your EnviroWiki entry.
- The first is to copy the editable text from your existing entry to one with a correct name. To do this, begin by creating a new EnviroWiki entry with the new (correct) name. In a separate window, open up the EnviroWiki entry you would like to copy and click on the 'Edit' tab. Copy and paste the editable text from one to the other. (Remember to ensure you have copied over the category tag.)
Preview your new EnviroWiki entry to make sure it looks the same as your old one and then save.
- The second stage of changing the name of your EnviroWiki entry is to set up a redirect from the old entry to the new one. Open up the old entry and click 'edit'. Add in the following tag: #REDIRECT [[pagename]] and save. When you search for the old entry name, you will automatically be redirected to the new one.
More help will be coming soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please email help(@)envirowiki.org
