[dokuwiki] Re: [patch] You Are Here

> I put the youarehere function as an example how to add a hierarchical
> trail. However I don't think a hierachical trail is a good thing for
> a wiki as it needs strict hierarchical namespaces which works
> somewhat against the wiki philosophy of "just add it". 

 If namespaces aren't meant to be used for a hierarchy, what are they
meant to be used for? They're the one of the most useful parts of
dokuwiki, imho, otherwise you'd end up with all your pages at the top
level and authentication would be a big pain, and generally organizing
things would be a big pain -- we're at 817 pages in our local wiki, and
there's no way that would all be tidy without namespaces (and
subnamespaces) to sort things out.

Personally, I've always done a patch to my dokuwiki installs to make the
hierarchical breadcrumbs work either like:

Root:namespace [is a page]
Root:namespace:blah
 
Or

Root:namespace:start
Root:namespace:blah

 And in both cases (because people using the wiki seem to set things up
either way) you get breadcrumbs pointing to the 'right' place for the
entry for "namespace".

 -- dan

 
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