Wiki/ Use of SubPages

[Matthew East]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 23:24 -0300, Mauricio Hernandez wrote:
> I have seen too many Page/SubPages in the wiki.
> 
> Afaik, this will stop 'easy to link pages' when writing because
> users/editors will have to know the full url path in order to make his
> doc link to th previous page. Otherwise, he'll be potentially creating
> a new page :(
> 
> What do you say? Do we need subpages?
> Can't all be NormalPageLevel?

I like subpages, they can be extremely useful, especially in a wiki with
lots of different types of content. In fact, I would like it if team
pages looked like this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/pagename
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Docteam/pagename

Yes, people need to know the full url in order to make links, but I
believe that happens with normal page levels too, especially given the
complexity of some of the page names. Anyway, when you are writing a
document or webpage, and want to make a link, it's normal practise to
look the url up.

We should look at what benefits the end user, not the editor, first.
Better wiki organisation can be achieved through subpages (see
Installation/) and this benefits the user.

Obviously, excessive use of subpages gets silly.

Matt
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