The Open Guide to London: the free London guide - Differences between Version 9 and Version 8 of Wiki Discussion/Categories And Autoindexing

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  • Should all art galleries be put in the caterory "Art Galleries", or just "Art"? Is there a definitive list of approved categories? AlexMcLintock
  • Is there any way of having category inheritance, e.g. everything in Category Chinese Food automatically gets put into Category Food? This way, there would be a hierarchy of categories, and the Category Category page could indent, like a table of contents.
  • Unfortunately, no. Eventually somebody will have to do that sort of thing by hand. Probably me, since I like doing that kind of thing. -- Earle
  • I don't think we want everything to actually be in the parent category. If all the restaurants in London went into Category Food then it'd be unusable. I do like the idea of having the Category Category page have expandable indents to show the subcategories. Maybe somebody will JFDI and write a patch.
  • How can we JFDI? Is there access to the CGI script available somehow? I can see problems with this. IvorW
    • No access means that there is a damper on creativity. But this might be the safest option. In this case, I'm offering to enhance the script if someone can mail it to me. IvorW
    • Publishing the script risks exposing us to clever hackers. We might want to insist on some kind of registration, or lodge the source code with some reputable organisation like sourceforge.
    • Also, a free for all for adding enhancements, although in the Wiki spirit, leads to a version control problem. And, when I've done my changes, how can I make them available to fellow Wiki-ites to test/peer review/critique? IvorW
    • The script's already public. See UseModWiki. But no, the only person with access to the code is me. --Earle
    • See UseMod:WikiPatches to see what's happening with UseModWiki. 1.0 is coming soon! --Earle
    • BTW, the category-subcategory-etc stuff sounds a bit like the ZWiki style. See this page for an example. --Earle
    • I've got a patch to UseModWiki for category autoindexing, I have a beta test site, which I can send to anyone interested. I am mailing it across to Earle.I have not submitted this to UseMod:WikiPatches yet as I want you guys to give it a thorough testing. Earle, any chance of putting the beta site up on grault.net? --IvorW
    • Good work Ivor! --Earle

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