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The URL needed to perform Step 1 below would be: '''https://citizendium.org/wiki/Template:My_Article'''. | The URL needed to perform Step 1 below would be: '''https://citizendium.org/wiki/Template:My_Article'''. | ||
To create a CZ subpages article called | |||
To create a CZ subpages article called "My Article", do things ''in exactly this order'': | |||
# create '''Template:My_Article''' and populate it with metadata (get contents from an existing article and edit it). See NOTE 1 below. | # create '''Template:My_Article''' and populate it with metadata (get contents from an existing article and edit it). See NOTE 1 below. |
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To create a new page, first type type the complete URL for the page into your browser. The URL for any page is https://citizendium.org/wiki/ + page_name (and any spaces in the page_name are represented by an underscore). Thus, the URL for an article named "Saint Helena" would be https://citizendium.org/wiki/Saint_Helena. When you type this URL in the browser's URL space, Citizendium will display the article for you (if it exists) or allow you to create such an article (if it doesn't exist yet).
The URL needed to perform Step 1 below would be: https://citizendium.org/wiki/Template:My_Article.
To create a CZ subpages article called "My Article", do things in exactly this order:
- create Template:My_Article and populate it with metadata (get contents from an existing article and edit it). See NOTE 1 below.
- move Template:My_Article to Template:My_Article/Metadata
- create My_Article; add the {{subpages}} template to its top
- create My_Article/Definition
- create Talk:My_Article; add the {{subpages}} template to its top
Once you have created the article cluster, you can explicitly create these in any order (but do NOT click
- (optionally) create My_Article/Related_Articles; add the {{subpages}}template to its top
- (optionally) create My_Article/Bibliography; add the {{subpages}} template to its top
- (optionally) create My_Article/External_Links; add the {{subpages}} template to its top
NOTE 1: Do not just create Template:MyArticle/Metadata directly, because that will create an article in the so-called "mainspace", and the title of the article will happen to contain a colon, as in "Template:MyArticle". But here, we need a template, which means, an article in the Template: namespace. So by first creating"Template:MyArticle" and then renaming it, you assure that Template:MyArticle/Metadata is in the Template namespace (with title "MyArticle/Metadata"). Otherwise, you'll have created an article in the mainspace whose name happens to be Template:MyArticle/Metadata, but the subpages template may not work correctly.