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H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jan 25 15:54:56 CST 2006


On 1/25/06, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
<christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, H. Fox wrote:
> > If you're trying to *reduce* confusion, providing more choices is not
> > always better!
>
> What... are we trying to *reduce* confusion!!! ;-)
>
> Ok, seriously. I agree with you, it's not such a great idea to by default
> list all the pages in the "current" group, nor all groups.
>
> What if we added these as possibilites instead? I.e. something like
>
>         ...
>
>         If none of the alternatives above is right, you may want to:
>         * [[List all groups of wiki pages -> (magic-link-here)]]
>         * [[List all pages in the group {$Group} -> (magic-link-here)]]
>
>         Or you may want to do a search for the wiki page:
>         (:searchform:)
>
> Maybe this would reduce the confusion?

At this point you've offered at least five choices, which IMHO is far
too many.  I think we disagree about where PmWiki Philosophy #1 kicks
in, particularly for inexperienced authors.

I'm proposing one offering *one* choice (aside from hitting the Back
button or the Site Logo or a SideBar navigation link) when possible.

Hagan




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