[pmwiki-users] Re: off-topic: Behaviour of non-existiant home page (was: Nested groups)

chr at home.se chr at home.se
Sat Jun 4 11:23:50 CDT 2005


On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Neil Herber wrote:

> Since there are very limited circumstances under which PagNotFound is
> displayed, perhaps the problem really is the language on the page (which
> is what Christian suggested). 

The discussion did seem to diverge a bit :-)

Anyway, my point is really that someone who isn't used to wikis (in this 
case my girlfriend) found the current formulation confusing. As it 
happens, there was actually a bug because the pages of the group weren't 
listed as they should. Hope I can remember to ask her to have another look 
and see if it makes more sense now...

Anyway, to me it was quite interesting that she automatically expected to
see a listing of the pages in the group when she went "up one level" - 
remeber that she'd previously visited a "sibling" page, e.g.

	http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test1/SomePage

and that she was now really supposed to go to e.g.

	http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test1/OtherPage

It seems she thought it would work sort of like the structure with
directories and files.  (I'm not sure if she actually did this, but since
she was using Opera, she could just press Ctrl-Backspace in order to go to
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test1 from http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test1/SomePage).

/Christian

PS. It might be a good idea if the concept of wiki group was referred to 
on the page, togheter with a link to the corresponding documentation.

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr





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