- With categories, there is a pause when you bring up
the category page. e.g.
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/CategoryHomepage

- With categories, you can only list the pages in one way.
The current Essay listings can be by name, creation date,
changed date.

- With categories, the list is "one-up" with a lot of wasted
space on the left.

- With categories, you must have one page for list item.
With the current scheme, I can have (for example)
3x + 1 Problem, Collatz Conjecture, and Hailstone Sequence
in the list, all linking to the same page.

- The main manual work for the current listing is already done.
To add a new page is only a small amount of incremental work.



----- Original Message -----
From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 13:38
Subject: [Jgeneral] wiki and essays
To: General forum <[email protected]>

> Currently, J's wiki has a manually constructed page which lists 
> essays.
> I think a better approach would be to have essays be a category and
> then assign each essay to be in that category.  Then the 
> list would be
> maintained automatically.
> 
> However, this would be a lot of manual work, and perhaps someone with
> machine access to the wiki could do this in an automated fashion?
> 
> Or perhaps there's some really good reason that this should not 
> be done?
> 
> (I wrote a small essay a few minutes ago, and have not added it 
> to the
> list of essays.)
> 
> Comments?
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