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Re: [grubstreet] [OT] using Wiki for people contacts

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] [OT] using Wiki for people contacts
Date: 12:57 on 28 Dec 2002
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From: "Kate L Pugh" <kake@xxxxx.xx>
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Sent: 27 December 2002 00:23
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] [OT] using Wiki for people contacts


> On Thu 19 Dec 2002, Alex McLintock <alex@xxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> > One Grubstreet thing I like is the use of Categories. I am thinking of
> > adding categories to my Wiki. I assume no code changes are required from
> > Usemod?
>
> No changes required at all.  It's actually just an ordinary search
> (whenever you click on the title link of a page you get all pages that
> contain that title -- it doesn't have to be a link).  There's just a
> convention that the string "Category Foo" marks a page as being in
> category Foo, and that the page "Category Foo" will then be created to
> make it easy to search for Foo things.
>
Just worth a mention - the idea behind having [[Category X]] or CategoryX is something underlying Wiki culture (BTW should the
initial letter of wiki be capitalised? I never know). With the development of Grubstreet, I saw a proliferation of categories, and
wondered whether this would ultimately become unmanageable. This was the motivation behind my +index patch. The original idea was a
replacement for the Category search thing - and dispensing with the word "Category"

As time has gone on, I have come to realise the having the word "Category" is useful. What I have designed with the patch is
something more general purpose, and more compatible with an existing wiki.

With such an existing wiki, there is still a "use mention conflict". A search for "Category Foo" will find all pages that mention
Category Foo, as well as those with [[Category Foo]] present in the "categories:" tag at the bottom. To overcome this, my patch
invents a special kind of link.

Ivor.


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