[Pmwiki-users] Cookbook Re-Organization (Discussion)

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:43:00PM -0800, Steven Leite wrote:
> Problem: The Cookbook is starting to look a bit large. It's hard to
> identify the simple workable (stable) recipe's that everybody would
> naturally want to implement versus the less popular but equally cute
> solutions that fit some Admin's needs, and which are simple and stable
> to install, to the big, unstable, complicated to use or install
> recipe's that few people will want to use (or are afraid to
> implement).
>
> Solution: Shuffle these "recipe's" around a bit, move them to a
> different pages or create a new group for them. My suggestion involved
> creating three Groups or categories for these recipe's. Cookbook,
> AdvancedCookbook, and PatchesAndFixes. Please read the description for
> each category to understand what (I think) should be contained in that
> category.

How about just shuffling them around on the same page but organize
them under the headings you propose? Or more descriptive headings as
"Cookbook" by itself would be redundant.  How about these?

1. Quick fixes
2. Well-tested recipes
3. Experimental recipes
4. Historical recipes

The beauty of wiki is that you're free to make these changes yourself
without input from the rest of the wiki community.  One hopes though
that you would be kind enough to do it in way that doesn't disrupt the
rest of the community.  

The best way IMHO, is to just do it. Leave the Cookbook group alone and
make a new one (or several if that's your bent) and start populating it
with the existing recipe links. Then tell the mailing list about your
new organizational structure. If they like it, they'll use it and
probably give you kudos.

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
duff at lighthouse.tamucc.edu