-----Original Message----- From: cl-wiki-devel-bounces@common-lisp.net on behalf of Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu Sent: Thu 9/8/2005 11:43 PM To: clelland@gmail.com Cc: cl-wiki-devel@common-lisp.net Subject: Re: [cl-wiki-devel] Thoughts about page storage Ian Clelland wrote:
On 9/8/05, Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu <vehbisinan@gmail.com> wrote:
:) Ok.
"Catalog index pages"? It sounds like a manual way. Am I right?
I can imagine a scheme where, when you put a page into a category, an index page somewhere gets automatically updated by the wiki... I don't know if it's a good scheme, but I think you could do that sort of thing without a lot of manual intervention.
Nice. But how to do that recursively or how to find the category of a given page? Actually, this is a question of whether we want to implement the idea of categories, and if yes, how comprehensive it should be. Stefan, the maintainer, should maybe decide it. But, I think that I'll need a category mechanism that can grow in depth as well, like subcategories.
Some questions: - Do we really need categorization feature? (Of course, it depends on who uses cl-wiki for which purposes) - Do we really need automatic update of some index, index page, etc.? I mean if I create a category I can update a page. If I forget then some time I'll remember, this doesn't pose a disaster. - Do we really need categories? Refer to Wikipedia. Does it have any? I mean, what if I create a page called "Categories" then make some alphabetic links (or categories) and place the links under them accordingly? Wikipedia doesn't do that automagically (you'll have to do a lot of editing), why should cl-wiki do? My 2 cents (like it or not :) Regards, Emre Sevinc Istanbul Bilgi University eMBA Development Team