On 03/05/2010 06:41 AM, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2010 06:58:21 Thomas Schmidt wrote:
Hi, I transferred the openFATE pages to the new wiki, and briefly discussed with henne where to put them.
They are now at http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tools/Openfate/... which means we use the colon only after the configured namespaces, openSUSE in this case. Is this the correct way we want to do this?
Greetings
I started to collect information about software that we decided to use for our wiki to help myself understand the principles that are used to create it. That article is still not finished, but your question about correct way needs answer now, so there is what I have by now.
All started with my aversion to subpages and attempts to explain problems. It seems that in all mails on that topic I captured the most of what is described in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Subpages/Archive which is linked from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages
Easy to guess titles which allow users to create, what they call, "accidental linking" is very important for wiki type of web sites, as they allow to link article without searching for exact title. Article title must be able to fit in any sentence as natural human expression, any other form that must be translated using, for instance, [[xyz|how to find xyz]] is not good.
What we did in old wiki that to "hide" articles, or to make linking unnecessary work intensive? Many things. * Book style capitalization, where link must be translated to fit in sentence and the only change is to make upper case letters lower case. * Using slash in a title (subpages) that must be translated making hard to guess actual title, specially when there is 3 or more levels of subpages. One has to search trough a lot of listings to get to the article. * Using special abbreviations that are not widely known, in some cases even self coined ones. * Created titles that are used in many topics, forcing wiki editors to create disambiguation pages and move article around.
The list is bigger then above, and sincerely I have mu share in created problems, but that doesn't mean that I should not try to correct mistakes.
So, openSUSE:Tools/Openfate/ is no go, IMHO.
What would be better? (it doesn't mean it is optimal)
Make http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tools that is currently empty page index of all tools, and for now enter only one item openSUSE:openFATE.
Ok, so I will move the page to openSUSE:openFATE. It was created at openSUSE:Tools/... because I read in a mail in the archive that this would be the place for openSUSE related tools. But the subpages are ok in openSUSE:openFATE/Faq for example? Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org) openSUSE Boosters Team "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org