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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:53:05PM -0400, deific@deific.org wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm very new at this this so the answers may be obvious to some of you.
> After searching for a day and a half I'm either missing it or not looking
> in the right places.
>
> I am not seeing a "create new entry" button on link when I do a search.
> I have been able to create new entries by creating a link on the term from
> within another entry but it seems like I'm missing the straightforward way
> to do it.

There's good reason why the link is missing.
If you don't go the way through a related article you may either create
an article which already exists under a slightly different name or
if you mistype the article name you'd have to move it and a sysop remove
the wrong one.


> Also, is there a way have a index of terms automatically generated?

You mean like in books in the appendix?

ciao, tom

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On Oct 5, 2004, at 12:53 PM, deific@deific.org wrote:
> I am not seeing a "create new entry" button on link when I do a search.
> I have been able to create new entries by creating a link on the term
> from
> within another entry but it seems like I'm missing the straightforward
> way
> to do it.

That standard and expected way to create new entries on a wiki is by
creating a link to the term from another entry.

A "create new entry" button encourages orphan pages, which is generally
considered a bad practice on a wiki; particularly since search queries
are often in a form that's not ideal for page titling (odd case, extra
words, etc).

However you can sneak in an edit link for negative results from a "go"
request by editing [[MediaWiki:Nogomatch]], like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Nogomatch

> Also, is there a way have a index of terms automatically generated?

Does [[Special:Allpages]] do what you want?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:53:05 -0400 (EDT), deific@deific.org
<deific@deific.org> wrote:
> Also, is there a way have a index of terms automatically generated?

This is already done by MediaWiki. It indexes all 4 letter words and
larger. (I don't remember specifics other than that). Wikipedia
generally has this disabled because of DB resources.

If you find this unsatisfactory, I would recomend Google.

-- Jamie
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