[Pmwiki-users] Re: Why heirarchy?

[chr@home.se]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Stefan Candea wrote:

> To me is simple, I would like to be able to use wiki for internal project
> documentation.  And, yes, it could be a different wiki for each and then a
> different wiki for each department and then a different wiki for each team
> and then a diff ...
> 
> Trying it failed from the first attempts of organizing the structure.
> 
> Is anybody doing this and has had success?

I did quite a bit of organzing when I started http://wiki.lyx.org, and to 
be honest I really hate having groups called:

	Devel/
	DevelTips/
	DevelFAQ/
	...

the pages have been split over too many groups in this case. The way I've 
structured the site to keep it navigable requires me to keep some 
additional files in each group. With many groups I end up with quite a bit 
of overhead to take care of.

Another problem here is that the site is aimed both for users and
developers of LyX. So for instance, I don't want to put "hard core"
developer information where newbies will se it and get scared :-)

In addition, the developers work on the next version of LyX and
documention of things like file formats will be different for different
versions. On one occasion wished I could have had structure looking
something like this (what I actually wanted was actually more complicated)

	LyX-format/
		1.3.x/
			Introduction
			Directive 1
			Directive 2
		1.4.x/
			Introduction
			Directive 1
			Directive 2

/Christian

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