[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The semi-restriction on the colon has to do with namespaces, and is > probably something that we will want to think some more about. Generally > speaking, every time you create a new page in a wiki, it is assigned to > a namespace. A namespace being a collection of pages of a specific type. > This allows pages of a given type to be treated different from other > pages. So when I name a page "FAQ:General", what I am saying is that the > page "General" belongs in the FAQ namespace and should be treated as > such. As it so happens there actually is an FAQ namespace, and > consequently we can restrict a search to that namespace. As well create > namespace specific formatting. > At present there is no "Getting Started" namespace. So what we have > instead is what some people call a pseudo namespace. Pseudo because we > can't really do the kind of things that can be done with real > namespaces. I've been told that there are some potential overhead issues > in using pseudo namespaces, which is probably why Wikipedia is so > particular about it. The main potential headache that I see with the > pseudo, is that if we were one day to decide to create a formal > namespace so that we could engage in restricted searches, we would have > to temporarily rename all the affect pages before activating the new > namespace, because a failure to do so could make the affected pages > appear to disappear. > Getting the namespaces set up should not be too hard. It would mainly be > a case of Jean asking User:ST for the namespaces desired. That and > renaming the pages on a before and after basis.
I talked to Stefan about this. The main disadvantage of using namespaces is that they need manual setup, and I don't see a real advantage. I would suggest to use the following approach: - use subpages for documentation (allows using Google for search in parts of the wiki, native wiki search sucks anyway) documentation documentation/FAQ documentation/Getting_Started documentation/Developer_Docs ... - use namespaces for localizations Frank -- The OOo Documentation Project: SIGN UP - PARTICIPATE - CONTRIBUTE IT'S FREE! NO OBLIGATIONS! http://documentation.openoffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
