[Pmwiki-users] Usage suggestions?

Ciaran ciaranj
Mon Aug 2 08:16:38 CDT 2004


Visually it doesn't really matter that groups aren't nested.  I find
that although instinctively useful that nesting feels, its perfectly
possible and in fact often more flexible not to worry about it.
 e.g. There's very little difference between having Media, Visual and
album groups as having a page 'Media' in your 'Main' Group that has
another page 'visual' in your main group, which perhaps links to the
home page on several other groups, such as 'PhotoAlbum1',
'PhotoAlbum2'   If you present this as a trail to the user they'll not
realise that the information isn't listed. And by keeping them in
seperate groups you can re-arrange their locations just by editing
wiki, rather than renaming files!

However there have been several recent posts about building much more
nested PmWikis that might be of use to you ?


On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:04:54 -0500, Philip Mateescu
<pmateescu at novosadhayes.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to ask for some wisdom and ideas on wiki usage in a given scenario.
> I'd like to deploy a wiki for usage among some friends. Conceptual, the
> structure we're looking at is something like the following (sorry for
> the length of it):
> /
> +- Software Projects
> |  +- Current Projects
> |     +- Project A
> |     +- Project B
> |  +- Planned Projects
> |     +- Project 1
> |     +- Project 2
> |
> +- Writings
> |  +- Technical Writings (articles)
> |     +- (IndividualArticles)
> |  +- Misc Rants
> |     +- (IndividualArticles)
> |
> +- Media
>     +- Visual
>        +- Album 1
>        +- Album 2
>     +- Audio
>        +- Project i
>        +- Project ii
> 
> Now if PmWiki supported nested groups, one might think it would've been
> easier, but as things might be shuffled around (i.e.
> Software.Planned.Project1.* might become Software.Current.ProjectC.*) it
> might not be as easy.
> 
> So if any of you have used PmWiki in a structured situation, would you
> care to share some tips please?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best regards.
> philip
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