[pmwiki-users] Categories (was: on over-bundling)

Hans design at flutesong.net
Wed Mar 9 03:35:59 CST 2005


Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 6:11:45 AM, Patrick wrote:
> I find it helpful to think of categories as being the opposite of
> WikiTrails.  A WikiTrail defines a set of pages by having links from
> a central "trail" page to all of the pages in the trail.  In contrast,
> a Category defines a set of pages as being all pages that contain a link
> back to the central "category" page.

> Note the difference:  To add page XYZ into a trail, we create a link
> from the trail page to XYZ.  To add page XYZ to a category, we create
> a link from XYZ back to the category.

Maybe I am pedantic now, but what you describe here as WikiTrail is
what I would call an index page, which holds a list of page links.
A WikiTrail requires the trail markup in each page, and so is not
defined just from one central page. The trail markup also provides a
link back to the trail page, much like when using categories. So a
WikiTrail lies in between index page and category. To add page XYZ
into a trail, we create a link from the trail page to XYZ, and we
create a link from XYZ back to the trail page using trail markup
<<|trailpage|>> or variants of it.

Thanks about explaining the use of categories, and introducing and
encouraging the use on pmwiki.org! It will be very useful indeed.

Best, 
~Hans                           




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