Categories on the new wiki

[Brian Burger]

On 7/5/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> What do people think? Is there a distinct role to be played by
> categories in this instance?
>

There's one good use case I can think of, which I should have put in my
original email: People frequently navigate websites in non-linear ways;
having great arrival pages like UserDocs & it's various sub-index pages
isn't much good if people don't arrive through them (ie, they were given a
direct link to GPGKey by someone on #ubuntu). Having both a sub-index page &
an associated Category ties things together a bit better, no matter how
people navigate the wiki.

The alternate to this sort of categorization is to have a link at the bottom
of every page that goes straight back to the sub-index page it's associated
with. In this instance, instead of using CategorySecurity, just have a link
back to Security at the bottom. Doing things this way would probably be
better if we want to reserve Categories for some "how reliable is this info"
sorting system.

Brian.
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