Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (40 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008 01:50:40 pm Marko Jung wrote:
> The Style Guide [1] says nothing on page names.
> Wikipedia has many rules for naming pages [2] and when to use subpages
> [3]. I would like to cite a short excerpt from that article:
>
> "Subpages were originally used on Wikipedia to differentiate between
> subjects to create topical hierarchies of articles, but this proved
> unworkable because articles tend to belong in more than one hierarchy.
> The present system of disambiguation was adopted instead, and the
> Wikipedia:Do not use subpages policy had to be rigorously enforced, as
> well as retroactively applied. As of mid-2004, the category system
> supports hierarchical organization while still allowing an article to
> belong to multiple categories."
>
> I would also propose this for the openSUSE wiki. 

I started discussion once before, and the best we came with was that one level 
of subpages will not hurt for special case where topic is discussed at 
certain level, and prerequisites, or details are explained on subpages. Good 
example would be "Style guide", with subpage about title naming. It is easy 
to jump in article and than back using back link. 

There is long time formed habit of using subpages. They look nice hierarchical 
like directories in a file system, but in reality it is just bunch of 
independent articles, with additional hurdle, to watch not to spoil back 
links when you move article to better suited title. 

Just put this in a "Style guide". It sounds as a good reason not to use them.

Besides, it gives a different way to use categories. Not as absolute, starting 
from few general categories, but relative, independent as focal point for 
articles that belong to the same group. This would remove need for templates 
that list all articles in one group. All that would be needed is to put them 
all in the same category. No need to change template when you want to add 
article to the group.

Apropos remembering. If we use equally easy to remember schema with spaces 
instead of slashes it will be easy to remember. For instance in version 
related article, suffix will give articles sorted next to each other in 
category that can have the same name as article. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko
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