Ian Clelland wrote:
On 9/8/05, Emre Sevinc <emres@bilgi.edu.tr> wrote:
- 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?
[...] ZWiki, for Zope, doesn't do categories, but instead maintains a document "tree", in which nodes have "parents", and that parent-child relationship can be changed by an editor. It uses this to create hierarchical lists of nodes, while still keeping the nodes all in a flat namespace.
Namespace this, namespace that. I simply don't think we need that functionality.
I'm fairly certain that Ward's Wiki (c2.com) only does categories manually; you have to create a category page, and link your other pages to it by hand. It doesn't seem to suffer for that despite its huge size.
And thinking about how much Bilgi University's Lisp User's Group's wiki can grow, I don't think that'll be a torture, too. (yes, I'm just thinking about our usage, shame on me :)
Honestly, I don't think that cl-wiki needs categories in order to be a "real wiki"; if there is a simple and elegant way of incorporating that sort of metadata, I'd be all for it, but I suspect that it would just take away from the simplicity of the thing right now.
I agree with you %100. Give me a simple and flexible content management system and let me mold it into any structure I want. Isn't Lisp all about flexibility (yes, not so simple but that's another story) :) Emre S.