Thread:Project:Support desk/Timestamp slice-able categories

Hello,

I've been Googling to get up to speed on the basics of wiki syntax, but I'm a bit of a noob and I was hoping the forum community might be able to help me out.

I've installed MediaWiki in a sandbox and what I ultimately want to get out of it is to create multiple heirarchies where a each page can be sliced and diced accordingly. For instance, assume I have one heirarchy i.e. USA/California/Oakland and another category i.e. CEO/CIO/Programmer, so if I create a new page for a DBA that has recently started in the Los Angeles office, I want it tagged both ways so I can search and come up with that page if I'm looking for everyone in Los Angeles or all of the DBAs. I assume there has to be a way to do this, but how would I tag that new page?

Also, I am interested in the time at which each page was created. Is there a way that I could auto-include the current timestamp on every new page that gets created, i.e. something like a now function, so that I can then search for all new pages that were created within a given time frame, while still maintaining the other heirarchies? So if I search for a particular week, I would see all the towns with new entries for that week?

Thanks in advance for your time and attention.