On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > There will be time later to try it out, maybe as a system of aliases > to the pages I'm just about to generate.
#redirect makes sense to deal with minor changes introduced in new versions of J, but that approach seems wrong for the wholesale introduction of a new naming scheme. Could we take a few moments to discuss the advantages of each different approach? First off, there is the issue of whether the pages should be saved under Vocabulary/ or whether they should be at the root of the wiki. Second, there is the issue of an english mechanism for transcribing the spelling of a primitive or using the vocabulary text. The advantage of prepending Vocabulary/ is that it makes the page's role obvious -- it was intended to be a part of this project. A secondary advantage is that the page does not need to include any explicit link back to the Vocabulary page -- it automatically be included because it will be a part of the page's name. The advantage of omitting Vocabulary/ is that the wikilinks would be shorter. The advantage of using the vocabulary text for the link is that the automatically included page label would be meaningful for the user, and would remind the user of which link they clicked on to get to this page. The advantage of using words which describe the spelling of the primitive is that the wikilinks would be shorter. Have I overlooked any long-term issues here? Thank you, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
