Re: [Cooker] [WIKI] Wiki topical structuration

[Dick Gevers]

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:39:38 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote about [Cooker]
[WIKI] Wiki topical structuration:

>I'm regulary ennoyed by the way the wiki turns into a giant flat
>collection of individual pages with too few relationship (apart insane
>crosslinking to my-own-page-that-is-really-really-important). It leads
>to duplicated content as new writer prefer to start a new page rather
>than try to think about where to put what they need to say, and make
>impossible for readers to find sensible information excepted by
>searching for a given topic...
>
>Some times ago, I tried some basic reorganisation of content related to
>packaging, by creating a few topical pages, enforcing a unified naming
>scheme,and linking all them together directly from the index page.
>However, this is not enough: see how the new  'Build System' page
>outside this hierarchy duplicates many content...
>
>This is both an organisational issue (we should have topical sections
>with someone in charge of ensuring coherency) and a technical issue
>(those sections should be clearly identified, both for readers and
>writers).
>
>I am volonteer for maintaining the packaging section, meaning trying to
>keep everything related to this issue inside a logical, balanced and
>clear structure. I was thinking about creating a top-level page for this
>section, describing this organisation, with a few mention about putting
>correct content into correct place, and asking me in case of doubt. This
>top-level page would mostly include links to real content, meaning it
>would replace the current link block at index page. ooes it makes sense
>? And could wiki css-wizards try to design a specific look'n'feel for
>this kind of structural pages, to clearly distinguish them from content
>pages ?

I agree, but the structure is basically there already: in every random page
you can see which is the parent of it: like a tree structure. If this
structure is saved to a separate page, which contains only the links (and
maybe a one line description), this will make a good roadmap of the wiki.

The wiki at http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca  used to have an index page like that
in some sort of automated format, but it has been superceded now by
Mediawiki, so I can't show it anymore. 

I personally wouldn't know how, but for a clever hacker it should'nt be too
hard to set it up. Once we have it, it will be easier to recognize 
(dis-)organization and duplication and to see what more needs to be done to
go where it needs to go as you just wrote.

My 2 c.

Cheers,
=Dick Gevers=