Hi Sergiu,

On Feb 15, 2008, at 2:11 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

[snip]

> I think the title field is a bit more important than the other  
> metadata
> fields, and it deserves some more space. It also encourages people to
> write document titles, thus giving more structure to the data.

I'm not sure why writing document titles explicitely is a good thing.  
I view it as an impediment. When I write docs with XWiki I don't have  
to bother with titles since the title matches my level 1 title. It's a  
more natural flow when writing documentation.

I think what we have in xwiki is better than what exist in other wikis  
where users have to explicitely enter titles.

However there are some cases when the computed title isn't right (for  
example when you put some velocity in titles or when titles are  
computed as part of some scripting construct). For those odd cases  
it's good to have a title field override and it makes sense to have  
that in the metadata.

> I'd say it should stay where it is. More, I say it should be
> automatically inserted in the content, like it happens in MediaWiki,

I don't like this too much. While it's good to be consistent with  
other wikis I think xwiki is more advanced in this domain so it's pity  
to loose that.

The fact that xwiki can auto-generate valid titles in 99% of cases is  
a really big plus IMO. The other wikis will use the document name as  
the title I guess which is way less good than what we have.

> and
> it should have a greater importance in the Lucene result score.

This is agree :)

Thanks
-Vincent
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