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For Colloquium on shortcomings with Mediawiki software
It seems to me that the Mediawiki software lacks some important functionality that Wikiversity needs. Wikipedia is essentially non-hierarchical whereas Wikiversity is intrinsically hierarchical. For Wikipedia each page of content is stand-alone and this is deliberately how this encyclopedia is conceived. On the other hand Wikiversity content is conceptually hierarchical with each main topic area heading up any number of subordinate pages. It may look like the Portal: namespace could be the place for putting these top level, topic area pages but that is the problem: Portal: is a separate namespace and, for example, is not searched from the search box unless prefixed with "Portal:". Top level pages need to be in Mainspace.

More on main topics: This includes two types of topic: the sort that helps organise Wikiversity generically and includes 'Schools', 'Portals', 'Topics' (see ) and also the top level pages of the distinct learning projects and resources. It seems to me that Wikiversity software should allow the creating of top level topics such that all the subordinate material under each topic is structurally contained under that topic. So if you 'grab' the top level page, you have direct access to everything under it and nothing that is not under it.

Don't subpages allow this now? Yes to a certain extent. But there are two problems associated with this in practice:

First,  not enforceable nor natural

Second, lack of ability to have page display names or aliases

Stuff - might be useful as examples
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Adding an interwiki link: Randomized control trial User:Droflet/Sandbox/GDNF