On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Michael C. Harris<michael.twof...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've done a little more investigation into providing structure for a > MediaWiki instance and concluded that a URL-based structure with > everything in the main namespace, as outlined in our Wiki Structure[1] > document and as we're already using for things like classes, is > fighting against how MW was designed to work.
Before going too much further, can I ask that we start at question 0? 0. Is MediaWiki the best option for us? I know it's popular, and offers some tremendous functionality. My question is: are we likely to leverage all that functionality? Or is MW overkill for our specific purposes? I don't have a positive recommendation for any other tool at this time. I could be flippant and say "Let's use Habari for our documentation!" and that may be worth exploring; but I'd like to re-evaluate whether MW is the best tool for the job, or whether we're trying to push a square peg through a round hole just because that's what everyone else does (and because we already have it installed and somewhat populated)? > The main namespace holds pages aimed at the new user, and the > community in general. We create custom namespaces, dev and core. These > correspond with what we were going to put at /dev and /dev/core. > > This has a number of advantages, including: > * Namespaces can be searched independently > * Pages can be styled based on namespace > * Page titles are slightly nicer than the URL structure If we stick with MW, that seems to make much more sense than a strict URL hierarchy within the core namespace. > On top of the namespaces, we make better use of categories. For > example, all the classes should be in the core namespace and the class > category, documents about releases should be in the main namespace in > the release category, etc. Again, that makes sense. Cheers, Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to habari-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to habari-dev-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
