[Pmwiki-users] Why heirarchy?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2004, John Rankin wrote:
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> Why does this require hierarchical naming to implement?
>
> Given that wikipedia's scope is all of human knowledge and doesn't
> require a hierarchy, I too am not convinced there is a real need.
>
> In the above example, a trail page plus ^|TrailPage|^ on all content
> pages (via a GroupHeader page) will show you where you are. For example,
>   'Filesystems > Disk filesystems > EXT3'
> would show on the EXT3 page. And reorganising the structure is
> just an edit of the trail page, no moving or renaming required.
>
> Wikipedia has a lot of thoughtful discussion on page organisation,
> which are well worth a read. Here is one place to start
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation

ok, i'll check this out.  it may very well be that i'm looking at this
the wrong way.  wouldn't be the first time.  well ... yes.  yes, it
would. :-)

thanks for the link.

rday

P.S.  the wikipedia does *not* represent all of human knowledge.  ken
jennings represents all of human knowledge.