[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Why heirarchy?
chr@home.se
chr
Tue Oct 19 15:29:32 CDT 2004
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> One item of note is that I've only come up with two reasons for
> needing a hierarchy over PmWiki's current group structure:
>
> 1. ...when a group name (e.g, "Hardware") needs to be reused by multiple
> groups; i.e., the same group name has different meanings and content
> depending on its context. To illustrate, if a group name such as
> "Hardware" appears only once in the hierarchy, there's really no
> difference between saying "Linux.Hardware.SoundCards" and just
> "Hardware.SoundCards".
>
> 2. ...to make an organizational framework more apparent to authors
> and readers. ...
3. ... to allow a search within a restricted set of pages
To me it is important to be able to put related information "close". I
know you can use wiki trails to let a user step through a set of related
pages. That doesn't help with searches though. (Unless we added some
specific search option that automatically searches all pages within a
trail).
In addition, it is sometimes annoying to have to update a page trail
whenever you add a page. If I can have a group dedicated to e.g. sound
cards, it should be enough to just add a new page to that group.
/Christian
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