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?
Well, Mediawiki (Wikipedia) definitely has categories, although I have no idea how they're managed , or whether they're a lot of work to maintain. They look like they're generated automatically. 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. 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. 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. -- Regards, Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>