[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Categories instead of hierarchies? (was: can pmwiki handle hierarchical content?)

Jonathan Scott Duff duff
Thu Oct 21 22:05:14 CDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:35:08AM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > > I'm scared of PmWiki going hierarchical; I think it will add a lot of
> > > complexity for not much gain *unique to hierarchies*.  
> > 
> > In case it's not been made clear: I don't have any plans to make
> > PmWiki hierarchical by default anytime soon.
> 
> I have to go to bed soon (well, now), and have only skimmed some of the 
> posts in this topic. Anyway, I noticed the statement above and felt I 
> had to point out that PmWiki *is* hierarchical.
> 	Pages are organized in one-level group hierarchy.

Hey, I'm off to bed too! Weird how the internet works that way  ;-)

I've never thought of grouping as forming hierarchy. I still don't
actually. Grouping is about putting related things together.  Though I
have to admit that John Rankin's "Category" idea does a much better
job of grouping, only along a multi-dimensional axis.

> * We should try to have meaningful URIs

Why do you think this?  To me, one of the chief "selling points" of
wikis is that you don't have to know or care about URIs (except
inasmuch as you need one to get to the wiki). 

-Scott
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