I'm not sure what a MediaWiki namespace is but this sounds good to me. ~Randy
Michael C. Harris wrote: > I've done a little more investigation into providing structure for a > MediaWiki instance and concluded that a URL-based structure with > everything in the main namespace, as outlined in our Wiki Structure[1] > document and as we're already using for things like classes, is > fighting against how MW was designed to work. > > I propose a new approach. > > The main namespace holds pages aimed at the new user, and the > community in general. We create custom namespaces, dev and core. These > correspond with what we were going to put at /dev and /dev/core. > > This has a number of advantages, including: > * Namespaces can be searched independently > * Pages can be styled based on namespace > * Page titles are slightly nicer than the URL structure > > On top of the namespaces, we make better use of categories. For > example, all the classes should be in the core namespace and the class > category, documents about releases should be in the main namespace in > the release category, etc. > > There is still a lot of moving content around that needs to be done > and a lot of content that needs to be created, but I think this will > allow us to make better forward progress. If no-one has any objections > in the next couple of days, I'll rewrite the structure page > accordingly and get to work. > > [1] http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Wiki_Structure > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
