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 > -- splitbrain.org -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist