[Pmwiki-users] Cookbook.WikiFarm

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 02:37:02PM -0400, Crisses wrote:
> 
> On May 2, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Eric Celeste wrote:
> 
> >
> >Am I the only one who sees a clear echo of the "hierarchical groups"
> >proposal in this WikiFarm implementation? It seems to me that 
> >hierarchical groups would be syntactically simpler and functionally 
> >more flexible.
> 
> This includes an assumption, I think, that each "Field" is linked to a 
> virtual domain.
> That makes it a very very different concept from "hierarchical groups" 

To clarify a bit further, I think of fields as being linked not only to
"virtual domains", but also to URL prefixes within the same domain.
I.e., I think it ought to be possible for a single domain (e.g.,
'www.pmichaud.com') to have a wikifarm with multiple fields in the
same domain, distinguished by URL.  For example, we could have

   http://www.example.com/~tbl/wiki/Main/HomePage
   http://www.example.com/~marc/wiki/Main/HomePage
   http://www.example.com/~brianb/wiki/Main/HomePage

all of which are separate fields in a common wikifarm.

This is indeed different from the commonly held concept of hierarchical 
groups, which to me would be a way of organizing pages within a single 
field such that all pages share the same base URL and allow groups to
contain subgroups.

Pm