Editing Help:Link (section)

=== Subpages ===

Pages in namespaces which have subpages enabled (Campaign, Quest, Setting, Story, /TG/heim, User, and all of the Talk namespaces -- see [[Help:Namespace]] for more details) can have subpages (e.g. [[Setting:Tiji Sector]] has [[Setting:Tiji Sector/Planets]]), with successive layers defined by using the slash character ("/").  A page can link to its own subpages and parent page without needing the cumbersome prefixes:
* Setting:Tiji Sector could link to Setting:Tiji Sector/Planets by linking to "/Planets"
* Setting:Tiji Sector/Planets could link to Setting:Tiji Sector by linking to "../"
Subpages and parent pages (and grandparent pages, and "uncle" and "cousin" pages, and so on) can be linked to each other very easily this way.

Be careful if you're linking to a page whose title starts with a slash (e.g. "/tg/" and other 4chan boards) from a page in a subpage-enabled namespace -- if we were to place <nowiki>[[/tg/]]</nowiki> on Setting:Tiji Sector, it would attempt to link to the nonexistent "Setting:Tiji Sector/tg".  To force a link to go to the page with the exact title you type ''(and this also goes for linking to categories or transcluding non-template pages -- see [[Help:Template]] and [[Help:Category]] for more information)'', put a colon at the beginning (i.e. <nowiki>[[:/tg/]]</nowiki>).

If you want a page to show a list of all of its subpages (e.g. a Story: with its chapters stored as subpages), you can insert the <nowiki> <subpages /></nowiki> or <nowiki><splist /></nowiki> tags, or the <nowiki>{{#subpages: }}</nowiki> or <nowiki>{{#splist: }}</nowiki> parser functions on the page to produce such a list.  See the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList SubPageList extension manual] for more information.