CZ:Creating an article with subpages

Creating a new page (except for templates)

To create a new page, first 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 create a new mainspace article called My Article would be: https://citizendium.org/wiki/Template:My_Article.

The subpages article cluster

Citizendium has longed required the use of article clusters, where a Metadata template page is used to hold information about all pages in the cluster. The five standard pages in a cluster are:

• (article_name) - required
• Talk:(article_name) - required
• (article_name)/Related_Articles - optional
• (article_name)/External_Links - optional
• (article_name)/Bibliography - optional

Note that four of the above pages are in the (main) namespace, aka "mainspace", whereas the second one is in the Talk: namespace. Namespaces are reflected in the URL of a page.

Each of the five articles above must have the {{subpages}} template as their first line. The {{subpages}} template draws on an additional, hidden page which contains information about the article cluster, including its name, sort order, and workgroup memberships. This hidden page is

Warnings and caching

WARNING: If you follow these instructions, because of caching on the wiki, display of the article cluster will not catch up immediately, so you are likely to see warnings, and the subpages header may show red (missing) links for pages you have already created. Ignore these. Following all the steps, then log off of Citizendium and completely close your browser. When you open the browser again and log back in, things will likely have settled down. If not, wait a couple of hours before decided it didn't work.

How to manually create an article cluster

To create a CZ subpages header, and article cluster, for an existing article "My Article", follow these steps:

1. Use the form on the CZ:Templates page to create Template:My_Article/Metadata and populate it with metadata the that will be used by all the subpages. See NOTE 1 and NOTE 2 below.
2. add the {{subpages}} template to the top of the main article
3. create My_Article/Definition and place a one-line definition in it
4. create Talk:My_Article as a blank page with the {{subpages}} template at its top

Once you have created the article cluster, you can optionally create these in any order (but do NOT try to create them by clicking the links in the gray subpages bar on the article--those links do not work at present):

• (optionally) create My_Article/Related_Articles, My_Article/Bibliography, or My_Article/External_Links; add the {{subpages}}template to the top of each new page

NOTE 1: Below is the contents of the Template:Doggie/Metadata page. Copy and paste it directly into your Metadata page, then change the two lines with "Doggie" to your own article's exact name (with no underscores; we use spaces here!). Change the workgroup name on the cat1 line to the name of the workgroup you want your article to be in (scroll down on Welcome_to_Citizendium to see all the workgroups). And see NOTE 3 at the very bottom of this article. You can optionally add two more workgroup names on the cat2 and cat3 line. Save the file. That's it! This information will be shared to each of the subpages in your new article cluster.

{{#switch: {{{info}}}
<!--general article properties-->
|       pagename = Doggie
|        variant = AE
<!--Required for checklist-->
|            abc = Doggie
|      cat_check = no
|         status = 2
|    underlinked = yes
|        cleanup = yes
|             by = 
|           cat1 = Literature
|           cat2 = 
|           cat3 = 
|           sub1 = 
|           sub2 = 
|           sub3 = 
|           tab1 = 
|           tab2 = 
|           tab3 = 
<!--required for ToApprove template-->
|    article url = 
|    subpage url = 
|        cluster = 
|            now = 
|     ToA editor = 
|    ToA editor2 = 
|    ToA editor3 = 
|           date = 
<!--required for Approved template-->
|       A editor = 
|      A editor2 = 
|      A editor3 = 
}}<noinclude>{{subpages}}</noinclude>

NOTE 2: Although its format is important, don't worry too much about the contents of the metadata page. As long as you get the article title correct, we can always edit the page later to make things right.