Wiki/ Use of SubPages

[Mauricio Hernandez]

Yes, Mathew. From DocTeam POV, organisation is a must. From enduser
POV, finding info quickly and intuitively is a must.

>From a wikiness POV, horizontal level of pages is the coolest idea
because AFAIK, wikis are ment to edit, share and add documentation in
the most easy, simple and quickest way, 'auto-generating-links'.

As wikis are based on simplicity, it is suppossed than when I create a
page, I'll use a name for it as if I were talking about it, and so
when other person or me is editing a new page and writes down ideas,
these ideas may potentially already exist as pages (written in the
same exact name  or maybe similar). Once editor saves page, he must
wait for that page to show up (already saved) and check typos or
unexistant links. If he sees unexistant links, he should (theory)
click on them and see what other pages already exist with similar
names (at least Moin way) and either use one of those and so redit
newly created page or just create his unexistant page using a template
or from scratch.
No matter what I name the page after, users usually tend to rememeber
page names when they are written in a simple-obvious way. I never
remember  http://www.educalibre.cl/?q=node/355  or 
http://wiki.edubuntu.org/endusers/m2123$%7=?the_1st.php  or similar 
names.

And if we can't remember page names (urls), then we'll always have to
look up for the info we want before editing. Then once we edit and
save, if any of those links is broken, how will we know there's even
pages with similar contents? (Moin cannot tell us unless names tend to
be obvious)

When SubPages (or unnecesary subpages) exist, they may brake the
previously described process. If we endup breaking this 'normal' wiki
process, then is it wiki what we really need? If we need a fully
structured site (I mean if Categories and RC is not enough), is it
wiki what we need?
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Cordialmente,

Mauricio Hernandez Z.

"Hell is repeating someone else's mistakes" (JPS)