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===Wikis only Method===
 
===Wikis only Method===
 
If your site is a wiki, you could use dedicated namespace (e.g. <font face="courier">Wikipedia:</font>) to maintain an easy correspondence between your site's pages and Wikipedia's pages. If you already have content, the fastest way to make your site Wikipedia+ enabled is to just add a redirect, so that <font face="courier">/wiki/Wikipedia:Some_Wikipedia_URL</font> contains <font face="courier"><nowiki>#REDIRECT[[Your_Corresponding_Local_URL]]</nowiki></font>.
 
If your site is a wiki, you could use dedicated namespace (e.g. <font face="courier">Wikipedia:</font>) to maintain an easy correspondence between your site's pages and Wikipedia's pages. If you already have content, the fastest way to make your site Wikipedia+ enabled is to just add a redirect, so that <font face="courier">/wiki/Wikipedia:Some_Wikipedia_URL</font> contains <font face="courier"><nowiki>#REDIRECT[[Your_Corresponding_Local_URL]]</nowiki></font>.
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==Associating {{PageName}}s with Website Pages==
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With the technical implementation sorted, the last step to enabling your site for Wikipedia+ is to add the content. i.e. To associate particular Wikipedia {{PageName}}s with particular Website Pages from your site. The only golden rule on how to do this is to bear the user experience foremost in mind. Different styles of site may be well served by different approaches to this.
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===Page Replacement===
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Page replacement is the most straightforward style. It is effective for well finished pages which match wikipedia's comprehensive nature. See, for example,
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http://www.wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikipedia:7_World_Trade_Center which offers a drop in replacement to the corresponding Wikipedia page.
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===Portal Style===
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A portal page is effective if you have a bunch of documents or links on a subject, but don't have a narrative structure to tie them together or to introduce them.
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Some wikipedia pages give a fairly reasonable treatment of a topic, but omit one or two crucial aspects, in which case, providing suitable links to these is an effective way to assist the reader. A single paragraph may be enough to explain what is missing from the Wikipedia account, and allow the reader to navigate to important material which they could otherwise not easily find.
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Another case in which a portal page is effective is if your website looks at material in a lot more depth that Wikipedia. In this case, you may wish to make a single 'index' page that offers easy navigation to your specialised content.
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==Informing your Audience==
 
==Informing your Audience==
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{!
 
{!
|Site Name
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!Site Name
|Access URL
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!Access URL
|Focus
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!Focus
 
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|Wikispooks
 
|Wikispooks
 
|https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikipedia:{PageName}
 
|https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikipedia:{PageName}
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|The "smoke-and-mirrors world of [[https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikipedia:Deep_Politics]]".
 
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