title: Organising complex webs of complex articles in large websites
body: <p>My question relates to how large websites, edited by several hundred people who work in a large organisation (such as a News website) organise their web pages. What form of mechanism works in the background?</p>
  
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  <li>Does each article represent a row in a table on a database. If so, how are images and embedded videos incorporated. </li>
  <li>Or is each page an individual web file with "include" tags for sidebars, headers and styling. Certainly on the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">BBC</a> website, each news page looks like it is an individual ".stm" file, but this doesn't strike me as a very efficient method when lots of people are collaborating.</li>
  <li>Or is each page one of many  files, that are organised by databases but which are not stored in them?</li>
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  <p>I'm sure there are a myriad of methods? What do the largest organisations use?</p>