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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Sunday, August 29, 2004 6:13:20 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 9 | Last edited on Saturday, August 28, 2004 11:32:00 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
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;DanielLawson: Regarding book reviews: We don't have to have them in the wiki at all. They are an exception to our standard system, as Craig points out - there is no !BookOfFoo page. But, I don't think there is a better place to put them, and I don't think we should work on putting more software in place when the wiki does the job. I think we should still adopt a standard, consistent nomenclature (and have it documented somewhere so people can learn what it is), HOWEVER I don't think we should pick one that requires a huge amount of effort to change to - unless someone wants to dedicate however many hours it'll take to fixing it (ie, saying 'all pages should be !PrefixName, eg !NotesOnFoo, or !BookReviewFoo', is going to take a fair amount of work). The most important thing is to be consistent, and IMO we should be consistent with what we have already.
;CraigBox: We were consistent with !BookReviewFoo, and then it was changed. That really pissed me off actually. Why do all the Howto pages start with HowTo?
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+;DanielLawson: I mean consistent across all page types, not just within a page type. Howto's are another matter altogether - I don't think they work very well at all within the wiki, because we either don't edit them, or we don't submit patches back upstream. They format badly, are hard to import, and even harder to update. We could probably get rid of them entirely. Personally, I think having to step some arbitrary number of characters into a page name just to find the actual content of the word is ridiculous. Having a suffix system serves to distinguish similar nodes with different content (Mozilla, MozillaMail, MozillaNotes, etc.). Using a prefix system means the *first* thing you see is type of the page, not the actual name of the page. Given that we don't have orphans, we either search for a page (in which case suffix or prefix is irrelevant), you use a category tag (in whcih case suffix or prefix is irrelevant), and they are linked from other pages, in which case a system which lets you actually find the real content of the page quickly, as opposed to having to look some unspecified distance (might be 5 letters or 15. Could be one WikiWord, could be three), seems far more useful. And if you have a bunch of pages in a list that share the same prefix, the different suffix just pops up because of alignment.
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+* [Mozilla]
+* MozillaNotes
+* MozillaReview
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+Contrast with:
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+* [Mozilla]
+* NotesMozilla
+* NotesOnMozilla
+* ReviewMozilla
+* ReviewOfMozilla
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+I've included the on / of ones, because MozillaNotes scans nicely, NotesMozilla doesn't. It sounds like engrish.
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+And, Why did renaming the bookreviews piss you off? We've not decided on a solution, so I made the reviews consistent with the notes.
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+;DanielLawson: on lowercasing everything, there is one problem that is harder to get round, although whether it occurs or not is another issue. FoobarPage and FooBarPage might well be very different pages, but if you ignore case they get merged together.
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