On Tue, May 15, 2007 9:51 am, fREW wrote: > On 5/15/07, Sebastian Menge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am Dienstag, den 15.05.2007, 10:03 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Menge: >> >> Now I have. There is a sample on >> http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/VimTest >> >> But it leads to another problem: In a wiki we have no means to >> autoincrement the id. >> >> Thus the convention VimTip<ID> for page names is not feasible. A good >> prefix is a must in my opinion, but what suffix? Howto assure that it >> is unique, not cryptic etc? Or what about complete freedom, and >> revising it afterwards? Perhaps we can even drop the prefix and use >> simply a "category". >> >> Seb. > > That's a hard question. Would it be worth it to have a cron job or > something that ran every night and moved/linked the newest tips to > chronologically ordered tip numbers? I don't think doing that would > be a problem, I just think it might be surprising when you make a tip, > and it's gone the next day. But a redirect like wikipedia has might > make that more reasonable.
This sounds like an excellent idea to me, and not too terribly difficult to implement. Thanks, Tom Purl
