[dokuwiki] Re: Proposals for a cleanup on the splitbrain wiki

On Thursday 24 July 2008 17:47:05 Andreas Gohr wrote:
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> Yes, adding some tags or icons to classify content might be a good idea.
>
> > - Some guidelines should be given so that review of pages will be done in
> > a more standard way.
>
> Agreed, see my suggestion of an explanation page in my other mail.
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> >  - Once all or most pages are commented, hopefully mainly with an OK tag,
> > review comments to have a better view of what can be improved and how it
> > could be improved.
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> We should only tag non-okay pages ;-)

I think we should actually encourage the use of tags, but maybe limit it to a 
number of permitted tags each with designed purposes.

Using tags to classify pages (e.g. "plugin", "template", "development") 
instead of just their state (which I think is also a good use of tags) means 
we can get the best of both worlds by having a relatively flat structure, but 
also allowing pages to be easily categorised (the main purpose, in my view, 
of a deeply nested structure) and more importantly to spot connections 
between pages that might not immediately be obvious.

It might require a change to the tags plugin to only allow pre-defined tags, 
if we decide to do it that way. But I think we might get more benefit by 
allowing free tagging; but with some tags reserved for specific uses.

For example, if someone came looking for an OpenID plugin, then if that were 
also a tag they'd easily find the authentication backend, maybe rendering 
plugin, or a template that provides additional features etc.

Just my tuppence worth of thoughts.

--Martin

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