Help:Subpages

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MediaWiki's subpage feature is turned off by default.

It can be turned on in any given wiki, per namespace, by the system administrator with $wgNamespacesWithSubpages in the specific wiki's LocalSettings.php.

[edit] Off

If the subpage feature is off (this is the default), then slashes (/) within a page name are simply part of the page name and do nothing special.

[edit] On

If the subpage feature is on (default is off and this is a per namespace setting), then slashes (/) within a page name break the page into parent and subpages, recursively, eg:

Example page....The main pages title goes here.

Example page/sub-page name....The main page with a sub page or 2nd page add. This is usually used if an article is to long for 1 page

Example page/sub-page name/sub-sub-page name....Here you can see that you can keep adding sub pages to an original article, But we recommend that if an article does not fit on to 2 pages that you break the article into 2 separate articles.

Link(s) back to parent(s) of the subpage(s) automatically appear at the top of each subpage. Note that these links do not appear, however, if the parent page has not yet been created.

[edit] See also

• Help:Variables#Page names