Recently I've seen a trend toward putting a large amount of data in a single wiki article.
Articles that get too long tend to be harder to maintain, or even just to add data in an organized manner. Sometimes organization suffers as a result, making the article confusing and difficult to read.
A much better approach is to break the article up into several smaller ones. This simplifies maintenance and also allows the original article to grow without becoming burdensome. The first article serves as an 'anchor' from which all other topics are then linked. This is a technique that should be considered when working with long articles.
The coding for this is quite simple - put the new article's title in 2 square brackets. If you find that you need to go to further sub-articles, that's fine - but then it's a good idea to put some navigation links at the bottom of the article.
The
FreeScan User Guide uses this technique - and here are a couple other articles that also use the concept of an 'anchor' from which other articles are linked. In the first example, the 'Question and Answer' section uses piping to create a hyperlink which is a bit cleaner to read.
SCANDATA.FAQ - The RadioReference Wiki
Saskatchewan P25 Public Safety (SK - The RadioReference Wiki)
You can edit the articles to see the underlying code.
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