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Subpages introduce some hierarchical organization into wiki pages, with levels of the hierarchy separated by slashes (/
).
By default, MediaWiki's subpage feature is turned off in the main namespace, but can be used on talk pages and user pages. See Help:Namespaces. In namespaces where the feature is switched off, any slashes (/) within a page name are simply part of the page name and do nothing special.
It's not possible to use slashes in the title of a page from a namespace where subpages are activated. However, as a crude hack, a character similar to the slash can be used instead, such as the "big solidus" (U+29F8), which results in Foo⧸bar (cf. a real slash: Foo/bar), or the solidus (U+2044), which results in Foo⁄bar. Three possible technical disadvantages (apart from the visual difference from a real slash) arise from this hack:
Slashes (/) within a page name break the page into parent and subpages, recursively, e.g.:
Note that the part of page names after a slash is case sensitive including the first letter.
In subpages, a link back to antecedent pages will automatically appear at the top. These links do not appear, however, if the antecedent pages have not yet been created or if the subpage feature is turned off.
There are various uses for the subpage feature. Some of the typical usages of subpages are:
Subpages are useful for organising information hierarchically. On the other hand, subpages tend to have a long name that is hard to remember, so it may be more user-friendly to use them as little as possible. You can also organize pages with the category feature, which is more suitable for creating a hierarchical network of information.
You can use any of the subpage extensions, like Extension:SubPageList, which features that allow you to customize the display. Or, subpages can also be listed very plainly without an extension by transcluding Special:PrefixIndex, like this:
{{Special:PrefixIndex/Help:Subpages/}}
Which produces this:
Subpages/subpage | Subpages/subpage/sub-subpage |
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