Hello. I think it's a good topic to discuss.
2015-09-17 13:32 GMT+02:00 Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>: > With the introduction of Nested Spaces / Nested Documents, we find > ourselves having to expand our terminology to accommodate the tree-like > structure of spaces/documents that we are managing. > > IMO, we have started going in the wrong direction with using standard tree > terminology directly in XWiki's UI, introducing new terms that simple users > could be easily confused by or overwhelmed (this adding to the already > existing ones). > > The specific issue I have in mind is how do we refer child entities for > each concept (wiki, space, page) and how does this scale when the hierarchy > increases. > > What I propose is that we Keep It SSimple (*™*) :) and just use the "sub" > prefix for the concept at hand. > > Examples: > * wiki -> subwiki (here we can continue using "wiki", as discussed > previously [1], since we don`t actually support nested wikis yet, but if > "subwiki" is used in a conversation it still makes perfect sense) > * space -> subspace [2] > * page -> subpage [3] > > The problem with the term "child", as pointed out by Marius in an offline > chat, has indeed the issue that it can only be applied correctly for first > level descendants, after which it becomes inaccurate, since starting with > the second level the term "descendant" is more appropriate. > Then we should use "descendant", because the concept of subpage, for me, does not necessary cover more than one level in the hierarchy. The subpage of a subpage become a "subsubpage". The term "descendant" does not have this problem. > > All of this becomes unnecessarily complicated and, IMO, we should avoid > dealing with it by using the "sub" prefix which is much easier to grasp and > accept. > > On a similar note, I also find the term "nested" to be a bit unnecessarily > complicated, specially for non-technical and non-english native users. > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > Eduard > > ---------- > [1] http://markmail.org/message/cehvpds5qmljq5f7 > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspace > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpage > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
