User:GhostInTheMachine/SubPages

Purpose

The script adds a Subpages option after the Talk button on the page menu.

Articles in the main namespace cannot have sub-pages, so the option is not displayed for articles. (This is not quite true, there are some sub-pages in article space, but they tend to be old.)

Use

The new menu option jumps to the special page that lists sub-pages.

Prerequisites

None.

Installing

Add the following line to your common.js file.

{{subst:Lusc|User:GhostInTheMachine/SubPages.js}}

Alternatives

Seems that this is almost the "Hello World!" script ...

• 2012-08-05 User:PrimeHunter/My subpages.js — just the subpages of the current user's page
• 2014-04-08 User:PrimeHunter/Subpages.js — subpages of the current page
• 2018-05-08 User:Bellezzasolo/Scripts/subpages — subpages of the current page
• 2018-09-23 User:BrandonXLF/Subpages — subpages of the current page

From Wikipedia:Subpages#Notes — Add a subpages link to the sidebar Tools menu:

mw.util.addPortletLink ('p-tb', wgServer+wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Special:PrefixIndex/"+mw.config.values.wgPageName+"/"), 'Subpages');

Possible improvements

• Do not display the button for category pages or files
• Always test for subpages and then only display the button if there are some
• Resolve the burning question of "subpages" vs. "sub-pages".

See also

• Wikipedia:User scripts
• Wikipedia:Bypass your cache