<quote who="Dave Neary"> > This is a very useful way to identify grouped pages with a namespace, and > it's particularly useful if a great number of disparate groups are sharing > the same wiki (as is our case). > > However, going beyong 2 levels is ususally not a good idea, and going to 4 > is definitely a bad idea. > > I would like to have the time to clean up the wiki in the near future, but > realistically, until August I'm in maintenance mode. If someone wanted to > take up the charge in the meantime, that would be great.
Thanks for bringing this up, it has been annoying the hell out of me, too. Please everyone, *only use namespacing when namespacing is required*! > For > example, > > MarketingTeam/EventsOrganisation/GnomeEventBox/SuggestedCosts > > could move to > MarketingTeam/GnomeEventBoxCosts > > or even > MarketingTeam/EventBoxCosts > > and it would be linked to from > MarketingTeam/EventBox Even better, just use "EventBox", because it doesn't need to be namespaced away. Namespacing what the hierarchy is for, not for general organisation. > Our wiki has gotten to the stage where linking to deep pages (and > handling the wiki text with lots of "../../../"s) has gotten more > complicated than the benefit of the hierarchy. Strongly agree. It is totally unnecessary. - Jeff -- GNOME Summit 2005: October 8th-10th http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 "People who paid for bug fixes in the 3c501 driver also bought MacIIfx support contracts..." - Alan Cox -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
