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<p><span class=rvts6>Saturday, October 6, 2012, 9:20:13 PM, Petko wrote:</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>> I'd like to have some arguments from the community why we should or </span></p>
<p><span class=rvts7>> shouldn't have a dedicated Skins/ group.</span></p>
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<p>Since the introduction of categories and links to listing by category</p>
<p>in the cookbook group menu I did not find a problem having skins in the cookbook.</p>
<p>For general browsing in general lists like RecentChanges it did help to have skins identified in the page name by a 'Skin' suffix, like PmWikiSkin. </p>
<p>Not all skin pages have that, unfortunately. A dedicated page group for skin pages will eliminate that, obviously.</p>
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<p>But moving skin recipes into their own group will likely break a number of links in external sites. I am using the Cookbook:.... alias on external sites, so any links to skin pages will need to be modified. We probably need a Skins:.... alias to create links to page sin the PmWiki.org Skins group easily. That would require a change in the distributed system, and it will not be backwards compatible. So broken external links won't be fixed automatically, and not easily, unless a system update will prepare for that.</p>
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<p>Then there may be all kinds of internal links on Cookbook pages between skin page and other recipe pages. Perhaps they can be modified automatically, otherwise need manual page revisions.</p>
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<p>So the organisational work may be more than one thinks, especially considering the impact on external sites. Is the benefit big enough to warrant this? I doubt it, since categories seem already to offer the best way to browse the cookbook.</p>
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<p><span class=rvts6>Best regards,</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts6>Hans </span></p>
<p><a class=rvts8 href="http://www.softflow.co.uk">www.softflow.co.uk</a></p>
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