I use the tags plugin on my wiki to create the overview pages. It removes a lot of the work I need to do to keep my overview pages in sync.
For example every page that describes a magic item I've created is tagged "item". Places are tagged "location", characters with "NPC" and so forth.
Some things have more than one tag, for example a town might have "location" and "name of area" as its tags.
--Martin Andreas Gohr wrote:
I'd suggest a flat hierarchy similar to what Wikipedia does. Give each religion, country, race and whatever else you have a single page in the top namespace. Then have overview pages linking to the other pages ( like a religion page listing all religions) and interlink all pages ( a country should link to its religion, neighboring countries, and so on) Andi On 8/28/08, Chip Dunning <chip.dunning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Thanks, actually that helped a great deal. It appears that you went only 1 level deep. That must mean that you have a great deal of files inside each one. Given that I am thinking about only taking mine 2 levels deep, instead of 3 or 4. Topic:Sub-topic. Thus one of my kingdoms would be Atlas:Dakarian_Kingdom under Dakarian_Kingdom there would exist a bunch of pages. Sub-areas would then be under the atlas namespace, no matter how many kingdoms they entail. Continents contain far more than sub-areas of the continent. Consider Europe vs. Iberian Peninsula both contain Spain but only Europe contains Germany. Chip On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Wes <stararmy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I don't know if this will help or not, but you're welcome to look at my RPG's dokuwiki setup for ideas: http://stararmy.com/wiki On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Chip Dunning <chip.dunning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Very new not just to dokuwiki, but to wiki's in general. I am trying to use dokuwiki from my various role-playing games (background, history, rules, etc.) and I am having difficulty making the mental transition from a combination of PDFs and HTML pages. The problem is that many of my PDFs span 25-30 pages covering a single topic. Obviously a single wiki page that long would seem to be a nightmare. Breaking it up seems proper, but then I am left trying to figure out the best naming scheme (combination of namespaces and pagename). Ex: Continent = broken up by sub-sections: Bronze Sea, Western Realms, Eastern Jewels, Northern Snows, etc. Kingdom = broken up by information: History, Resources, Religion, Government, Military, Sub-Domains, etc. Major Area = broken up by town or a single lord's holdings, etc. Given 5 Continents, 4 sub-areas per continent, 8 nation-states per sub-area, and about 10 major areas per nation-state. I am trying to work out the best combination to take advantage of the wiki. 1) Atlas:Continent:Subarea:Nation:Area 2) Atlas:Continent:Subarea:Nation 3) Atlas:Continent:Nation 4) Atlas:Nation Currently I am leaning towards #3, but I could use some advice if this is not really the best way to approach namespace:pagenames. Second, how to break up my large pages. As an example one of my major kingdoms is written up in a PDF spanning almost 50 pages. There are subtopics within this document, but I want to make sure that someone can quickly find relevant information. If they search for Religion - given that there are over 180 nations each with a religion document it could return a huge number of results. I think once I get my mind wrapped around the wiki way of doing things it will go well for what I want to get out of it, but I really want to start the best way possible. For that I need to tap some expertise on this list. Chip -- "The reason the mainstream is considered a stream is because it's so shallow" --George Carlin -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist-- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist-- "The reason the mainstream is considered a stream is because it's so shallow" --George Carlin -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist
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