+1 I discovered this about a month ago and have been using it ever since.
Cheers, --- Chris Aniszczyk | IBM Lotus | Eclipse Committer | http://mea-bloga.blogspot.com | +1.860.839.2465 From: Jeff McAffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: 11/17/2007 03:57 PM Subject: [equinox-dev] Fw: [cross-project-issues-dev] Wiki "standardization"? anyone tihnk that using / would be good in our wiki pages? The value seems to be in the breadcrumbs that Nick mentions. Check out the set of links at the top of one of the page examples he gives. I'm not proposing a rename of all the pages (though that is possible) but looking to bring some order to the wiki going forward. Jeff ----- Forwarded by Jeff McAffer/Ottawa/IBM on 11/17/2007 04:51 PM ----- Nick Boldt/Toronto/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@ To eclipse.org "Cross project issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] pse.org> 11/17/2007 12:49 PM cc Subject Please respond to Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Cross project issues Wiki "standardization"? <[EMAIL PROTECTED] e.org> When I first started writing wikis, I tended to use the [[Category:...]] convention to group pages into obvious categories like Releng, Java, EMF, Modeling, FAQ... I still do that, but having discovered the 'automatic breadcrumb' effect of creating subpages using "/" in titles, I've started renaming pages to use that new convention, as it provides a sense of page-to-project ownership and navigation that the categories don't provide. Consider: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Modeling_Project_Releng/Component_Creation/Build_Server_Setup http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/1.5_Plan http://wiki.eclipse.org/MDT/XSD/FAQ http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede/Signoffs Also, category nesting is a powerful way to create component or subproject categories: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Dash_Project http://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Modeling http://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Releng Personally, I recommend using both. Oh, and as Remy taught me a while back, if you need to redirect a page to another page (and can't do a Move because there are already two existing pages, or because you want to have a landing page direct to a Category [1]), just do something like this: #REDIRECT [[:Category:Eclipse_Web_Tools_Platform_Project]] [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Web_Tools_Project Of course one aspect of naming that Remy didn't mention is the over-verbose page titles like "Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project" when "Web Tools Project" would work just as well. ;-) $0.02, Nick On Nov 17, 2007 12:17 PM, Remy Chi Jian Suen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know a wiki is supposed to be open and free, but I think that standardizing a couple of things here and there would be helpful and make it look a lot more uniform. The primary issue I have is with the naming convention of pages. There are probably other things that needs to be changed too, but I think that this inconsistency looks bad and is kind of annoying. There are a couple of projects that have adopted the subpages concept by using slashes in their page names like... CDT/Developer/FAQ PDT/FAQ ...and then we have those that go about with the full article name like... GMF Development Guidelines Equinox p2 Getting Started ECF Ganymede Roadmap Mylyn Contributor Reference ...and next, we have RAP and Bug Day kind of doing its own thing (as far as I know) with limiting the use of spaces (for no technical reason, mind you, since spaces in titles are perfectly valid)... RapFaq RapPlan Rap10M3 News BugDay/November 2007 ...and BIRT that's decided to use suffixes for identification purposes on a few of their pages like... Contributing Examples (BIRT) Logging The Events - Show the Typical Log Stack (BIRT) ...and finally, we have some pages that come out of nowhere with no context like... Components Deployments CodingConventions Shared Editing There may be other naming conventions that are being employed, but since there are so many Eclipse projects and so many wiki pages, I have only presented a sample of what I have seen while clicking around. I would personally vouch for the first option of using subpages (PDT/FAQ) as I feel that that would make organizing things a little easier and makes it immediately clear as to what a page is under. Does anyone have any opinions or thoughts about this, what are your preferences? Does anyone even care or am I making this inconsistency problem sound bigger than it really is? Regards, Rem _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev _______________________________________________ equinox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/equinox-dev
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