I tried creating a wiki-tag page today, and here are some questions I ran into that don’t seem to be answered by this FAQ:
Is there a way to add wiki-links like on the old wiki? I tried using the [[double square brackets]] like on MediaWiki, but this did not work (at least on the new editor).
Is there a way to quickly see if a wiki-tag page on a topic already exists? On the creation page, typing something in the box does not show existing pages with that substring. What I’m doing right now is to look on the all tags page (searching with my browser) and also looking at the wiki 1.0 imported pages list and again searching there. I feel like there must be a better way than this, but I couldn’t figure it out.
Is there a way to add MediaWiki-like <ref> tags? Or is there some preferred alternative way to add references on wiki-tag pages?
I seemed to have gotten a submit error when I tried to post these a couple of hours ago. Here’s my attempt to answer your questions. Thanks to Raemon for also answering.
------- Good questions!
Is there a way to add wiki-links like on the old wiki? I tried using the [[double square brackets]] like on MediaWiki, but this did not work (at least on the new editor).
Not currently. I expect we’ll implement a new autocomplete/auto-link on existing pages relatively soon, but this won’t automatically create new pages if they don’t exist.
Is there a way to quickly see if a wiki-tag page on a topic already exists? On the creation page, typing something in the box does not show existing pages with that substring. What I’m doing right now is to look on the all tags page (searching with my browser) and also looking at the wiki 1.0 imported pages list and again searching there. I feel like there must be a better way than this, but I couldn’t figure it out.
The best way would be with LessWrong’s overall search bar (top right of the page). That has a Wiki & Tags section that’ll cover all pages. Sorry for not having search clearer or better (I plan to put a prominent search bar on the Concept page), it’s a significant shortcoming right now.
Is there a way to add MediaWiki-like <ref> tags? Or is there some preferred alternative way to add references on wiki-tag pages?
Unfortunately not currently but we get a lot of questions about footnotes and references, so I’m personally voting on the team that we actually implement something good here.
Thanks for asking, sorry we haven’t got all the things fleshed out yet, but thanks for your interest!
I’m not 100% sure what you mean, but I think this just involves creating a regular lesswrong link the same way you would in any other lesswrong post, comment or tag.
quickly check if a wiki-tag already exists
Ah, this isn’t currently possible on the create-tag page, but is possible when adding tags to an individual post (while on a post page, you can click “add tag”. You can type words into the search box, and see a dropdown of tags sharing those words. If you end up not finding an appropriate tag, you can then click the ‘create tag’ button (which doesn’t automatically autofill the tag name into the form, but the words you typed will still be very accessible and it’ll be reasonably easy to create the tag there)
Unfortunately this isn’t that useful to creating tags that you don’t want to apply to a particular post. I agree we should add a similar dropdown the create-tag page.
references
I don’t think we currently do handle references any particular way. If a reference is relevant, add a link to it in the description. (I think it works best if you include a paragraph explaining why it’s relevant, but simply adding a link at the bottom is better than not-that)
I tried creating a wiki-tag page today, and here are some questions I ran into that don’t seem to be answered by this FAQ:
Is there a way to add wiki-links like on the old wiki? I tried using the [[double square brackets]] like on MediaWiki, but this did not work (at least on the new editor).
Is there a way to quickly see if a wiki-tag page on a topic already exists? On the creation page, typing something in the box does not show existing pages with that substring. What I’m doing right now is to look on the all tags page (searching with my browser) and also looking at the wiki 1.0 imported pages list and again searching there. I feel like there must be a better way than this, but I couldn’t figure it out.
Is there a way to add MediaWiki-like <ref> tags? Or is there some preferred alternative way to add references on wiki-tag pages?
I seemed to have gotten a submit error when I tried to post these a couple of hours ago. Here’s my attempt to answer your questions. Thanks to Raemon for also answering.
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Good questions!
Not currently. I expect we’ll implement a new autocomplete/auto-link on existing pages relatively soon, but this won’t automatically create new pages if they don’t exist.
The best way would be with LessWrong’s overall search bar (top right of the page). That has a Wiki & Tags section that’ll cover all pages. Sorry for not having search clearer or better (I plan to put a prominent search bar on the Concept page), it’s a significant shortcoming right now.
Unfortunately not currently but we get a lot of questions about footnotes and references, so I’m personally voting on the team that we actually implement something good here.
Thanks for asking, sorry we haven’t got all the things fleshed out yet, but thanks for your interest!
I’m not 100% sure what you mean, but I think this just involves creating a regular lesswrong link the same way you would in any other lesswrong post, comment or tag.
Ah, this isn’t currently possible on the create-tag page, but is possible when adding tags to an individual post (while on a post page, you can click “add tag”. You can type words into the search box, and see a dropdown of tags sharing those words. If you end up not finding an appropriate tag, you can then click the ‘create tag’ button (which doesn’t automatically autofill the tag name into the form, but the words you typed will still be very accessible and it’ll be reasonably easy to create the tag there)
Unfortunately this isn’t that useful to creating tags that you don’t want to apply to a particular post. I agree we should add a similar dropdown the create-tag page.
I don’t think we currently do handle references any particular way. If a reference is relevant, add a link to it in the description. (I think it works best if you include a paragraph explaining why it’s relevant, but simply adding a link at the bottom is better than not-that)