Subpages are part of the MediaWiki page structure. They are separated with a forward slash symbol (/) from a 'parent' page, as is common in other websites. Subpages are used on Appropedia to organize information specific to projects or other pages on Appropedia. Some benefits of this are:
Organize pages by project
Subpages allow you to organize content under your project so that other people can find it easily. You can display a list of these pages on the main page of your project only by using Template:List subpages.
For example, this is a list of subpages under the page Global Surgical Training Challenge:
Reusing common page names under different projects
Subpages allow reusing common names for different projects, such as "design," "bill of materials," and "bibliography." For example, the pages Anisa Foundation parabolic solar hot water heater/Design and Zeer pot refrigeration/Design are named identically but exist under different projects.
Personal pages
Subpages allow you to create additional pages under your user page. This can help you organize page drafts or to-do lists. A great example of this is the standard "sandbox" page at Special:MyPage/Sandbox, but you can create subpages with different names as well.
Automatic translations
Appropedia is testing the creation of automatic translations, which are stored under subpages named by language code (for example, en for English and es for Spanish). You can see a list of these at Category:Automatic translations.
See also
- {{list subpages}} template to display all the subpages for a specific page.