[pmwiki-users] Re: Utility pages
chr at home.se
chr at home.se
Wed Jun 15 05:48:41 CDT 2005
On 15 Jun 2005, John Rankin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2005 2:45 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >With this message I'll try to review the options discussed thus far,
> >offer some opinions, and then let's see if we can come to a decision
> >that most of us can live with.
> ...
> >
> > Site
> > Actually, this one is growing on me the more I think about it --
> > Site.AllRecentChanges, Site.SearchWiki, Site.EditForm, Site.ActionList,
> > Site.EditQuickReference, etc. all seem to work very well. The downside
> > is that it encroaches on sites that want to use "Site" as a group--
> > but I suspect that's not common (and the few sites that want to do
> > this can move the default Site.* pages to another group).
>
> 'Site' works for me. So would 'Wiki'. OTOH...
I'd prefer Site, and simply 'Wiki' would also work for me. Both seem
rather unlikely to be used for something else.
> Describing them as "utility pages" seems natural and descriptive.
> The title of this message is 'Utility pages' not 'Site pages'.
> So 'Util', 'UP', 'UPage' have some appeal (rejecting 'Utility'
> for the reason given).
The problem with 'Util' is that think it's relatively common to use for
other stuff... that's what I'd call a group with pages about utilities in
general for one.
> >If we go with "Site", I think the obvious configuration variable name
> >for it is $SiteGroup.
>
> Or possibly $UtilityGroup. I can't help but think that potentially the
> DocumentationIndex page will be called UtilityGroup, not SiteGroup.
Wouldn't DocumentationIndex always stay in PmWiki/? AFAIK, we're not
talking about movng the PmWiki-documentation, just these "extra" pages.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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