Re: Wiki best practices

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 09:26 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The Wiki allows, as we all know, sub-pages with the notation
> /SectionName/SubPage
> 
> This is a very useful way to identify grouped pages with a namespace,
> and it's particularly useful if a great number of disparate groups are
> sharing the same wiki (as is our case).
> 
> However, going beyong 2 levels is ususally not a good idea, and going to
> 4 is definitely a bad idea.

Why?

> 
> I would like to have the time to clean up the wiki in the near future,
> but realistically, until August I'm in maintenance mode. If someone
> wanted to take up the charge in the meantime, that would be great. For
> example,
> 
> MarketingTeam/EventsOrganisation/GnomeEventBox/SuggestedCosts
> 
> could move to
> MarketingTeam/GnomeEventBoxCosts
> 
> or even
> MarketingTeam/EventBoxCosts
> 
> and it would be linked to from
> MarketingTeam/EventBox
> 
> Just because there are lots of pages in the MarketingTeam hierarchy
> doesn't mean they all need to be linked from the MarketingTeam page...
> 
> Our wiki has gotten to the stage where linking to deep pages (and
> handling the wiki text with lots of "../../../"s) has gotten more
> complicated than the benefit of the hierarchy.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> -- 
> David Neary
> bolsh gimp org
> 
> 
> 
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