CZ:Creating an article with subpages

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 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:

1. create Template:My_Article and populate it with metadata (get contents from an existing article and edit it). See NOTE 1 and NOTE 2 below.
2. move Template:My_Article to Template:My_Article/Metadata
3. create My_Article; add the {{subpages}} template to its top
4. create My_Article/Definition
5. 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 try to create these by clicking the links in the gray subpages bar on the article--those links do not work at present):

1. (optionally) create My_Article/Related_Articles; add the {{subpages}}template to its top
2. (optionally) create My_Article/Bibliography; add the {{subpages}} template to its top
3. (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.

NOTE 2: 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). 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 3: 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 get the details just right.