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== Concatenate Articles ==

I would like to make a big article out of smaller articles.

<nowiki>[[include ArticleN]]</nowiki>

Is this possible?

:It is possible to include elements like this, but we wouldn't use it for standard article content.  If you would explain exactly how you want to use them, or why you want to break up a large article like this, it will be easier for me to explain the best course of action. :)  [[User:Fabiform|fabiform]] | [[User talk:Fabiform|talk]] 17:20, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

:To elabourate, ''currently'' you can include special pre-defined sections, for instance that would be used on multiple pages, by putting them in the [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace|MediaWiki namespace]]. The next version of the software will allow "[[transclusion]]" from any namespace, making it ''technically'' feasible to do what you seem to be asking (the syntax, by the way, will be <code><nowiki>{{:ArticleN}}</nowiki></code> if <tt>ArticleN</tt> is just in the normal article namespace).
:However, I'm going to take a stab in the dark that you want to make a long page easier to edit - in which case you have two options: 
:* if it's really ''really'' long, maybe it just needs to be in several articles anyway - after all [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not paper|Wikipedia is not paper]], and we can make use of ''the power of hyperlinks''...
;* if it's just getting hard to edit, you just need to learn how to use [[Wikipedia:section editing|section editing]] - use appropriate headers, and you can edit the contents of one header independent of the others.
:Hope that helps. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 18:11, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

:This probably should have gone into meta, as it's more of a general mediawiki question and not one specifically for anything I am doing on wikipedia, but thanks for the info, anyway.  :)  I'll look forward to the feature in newer versions.  [[User:Msporled|Msporled]] 18:33, 11 May 2004 (UTC)