Re: Wiki best practices

2005-07-26 Thread Thilo Pfennig
for the real enlightenment I would *strongly* suggest to dive into the primal wiki at: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki . It's very funny but also full of WikiWisdom! some interesting pages are: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiGnome http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSingleWordProblem

Wiki best practices

2005-07-20 Thread Dave Neary
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

Re: Wiki best practices

2005-07-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Murray Cumming a écrit : On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 09:26 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: However, going beyong 2 levels is ususally not a good idea, and going to 4 is definitely a bad idea. Why? Wow. I thought it was obvious, but you're forcing me to think about it. OK... the first 3 are for

Re: Wiki best practices

2005-07-20 Thread Murray Cumming
I tend to use these deeper pages to tack less-interesting stuff on to more interesting stuff, to avoid cluttering the interesting stuff. I tend to feel that the advantage of the wiki is that it's editable, and I'm not so worried about the links being easy to write. I hate wikiwords and I use

Re: Wiki best practices

2005-07-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Murray Cumming a écrit : I tend to use these deeper pages to tack less-interesting stuff on to more interesting stuff, to avoid cluttering the interesting stuff. If we don't link to the uninteresting stuff anywhere except where it's being tacked on, there's no clutter (except namespace