SandJ wrote:How about using
Transclusion? That allows the content of one page to appear in another. I shall give it a go right now with the Dragon and its 3 variants and see how it looks ...
I think this works well.
The
original Dragon page had 4 ships on the one OXP page, and the info box trying to describe 3 ships in one.
How it looks now - much the same (although I have also added the unavailable military version for reference and completeness).
But the text for the
Dragons AN,
SE and
M actually comes from their own pages and is 'imported' into the main Dragon page thus:
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==Available models==
====Dragon FB-103 Assault Craft - The Military Version====
The original Dragon, the FB-103 Assault Craft, is no longer seen in the 8 galaxies.
<!--- Note that the next three commands include all the details of the 3 variants via transclusion, i.e. by importing it from their own pages. --->
{{:Dragon AN}}{{:Dragon SE}}{{:Dragon M}}
The
{{:page name}} imports all the content of the
page name into the current page. It also adds a blank line which is why I concatenated them on one line.
The three variants then have their own page made up of the text that was on the Dragon page, and a suitable entry made for the Dynamic OXP List thus:
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{{Semantic Infobox ShipStats Oolite| title=Dragon AN
...
}}
Description of the ship.
However, that makes the Semantic Infobox appear on the Dragon page for each of the 3 variants, which cocks up the Dynamic OXP List. So, that part must be excluded. Also, the pages for the variants need some extra text so that when accessed directly they are put into context, such as "See the main Dragon page for more info". That text must also be excluded. You do that by telling the wiki to only include the text part, using
<includeonly> tags, like this:
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{{Semantic Infobox ShipStats Oolite| title=Dragon AN
|image = [[Image:Dragon_in_flight.png|250px]]
etc.
|baseprice = 200000 Cr
}}
<onlyinclude>
====Dragon AN - The Classic====
This is a nod to the original Dragon, specced to appeal to cargo jockeys. Kitted with an upgradeable 20 TC cargo space, an empty aft gun mount and an 8 round missile launcher, the Dragon AN is a superb upgrade from the Cobra Mk 3. Traders, hunters, and pirates are seen flying the Dragon AN.
</onlyinclude>
See [[Dragon|the Dragon page]] for more information on the other Dragon variants.
This results in:
a) the main Dragon page appears to describe the Dragon OXP and all the ships it contains, so everything looks like it is in one place;
b) each of the ships has its very own wiki page;
c) each variant appears on the Dynamic OXP List as an entry;
d) there is no duplication of text or images, so no risk of discrepancy.
How's that? Does it deserve a dancing bananana?
