[pmwiki-users] on over-bundling

[John Rankin]

On Wednesday, 9 March 2005 5:07 PM, Neil Herber <nospam at mail.eton.ca> wrote:
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>Part of the problem with the docs is that they are too "flat". I would like 
>to see more aggregator pages discussing particular topics (say, passwords) 
>and then referencing all the relevant pages. As Jonathan Scott Duff 
>suggested, the category feature could be used to good effect here. The only 
>problem that presents to me, is that I still can't get my head around how 
>categories work.

I have been waiting for an opportunity to use a word I learnt recently, so
thank you, Neil...

The first step in using categories is to develop a 'folksonomy' -- an
informal vocabulary suitable for categorising the pages in question.
These might be the names of the 'aggregator pages'.

Using your example, put '[[!passwords]]' on all pages about passwords.

You might put [[!tables]] on all pages about tables, [[!links]] on
all pages about links, and so on.

A page can be in more than one catgory, but a good start might be to 
put most pages into at least one category.


See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
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JR
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John Rankin