[dokuwiki] Re: New Start

  • From: Martin Gill <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:00:50 +0100


Tags link to the tags namespace (unless you changed the configuration).

When you click on a tag it will take you to the page for that tag (e.g. tag:mytag). The tags plugin will show the backlinks page by default if that page doesn't exist, in other words all pages that are tagged with that tag.

What I tend to do for my tags is create a simple page like this:

===== NPCs =====

^Tag:|npcs|

Used for DnD campaign pages that describe one or more NPCs (Non-Player Characters).

{{topic>npcs}}


This simply gives a "nice" name for the tag (I use the headings for links option) then a quick reminder of what the actual tag text is, and finally the {{topic>npcs}} entry which will collect and display all the pages with that tag.

I don't bother with a central tag index page, i just let people click on the tags they find in the pages. It's quite easy to have one though, just create a page which lists all the pages in the tags namespace. I think there's a command for that (index or something), if not there's definatly a plugin for it.

--Martin

Chip Dunning wrote:
Okay, I have download the tags plugin.

If I go this route then I would create a page for each "something", be
it item, spell, city, nation, religion, etc. Basically a contained
entity.

Then I would create overview pages for each of my tags. Thus if all
religions are tagged with the word religion - I would create a
Religions of the World overview page that walked those tags. Is this
correct?



Chip


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Martin Gill <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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