Re: Disabling namespaces in DokuWiki?
Martin Erlandsson <marterland <at> gmail.com>
2009-01-05 07:46:04 GMT
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Samuel Penn <sam <at> glendale.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Friday 19 December 2008 07:40:26 Martin Erlandsson wrote:
> > Different contexts have different needs, I guess.
> >
> > In my case (my personal view based on the wiki contexts I have
> > experience from), I find it very confusing to mix pure wiki linking
> > with a hierarchical strategy. Wikipedia and many other wikis work just
> > fine without namespaces or hierarchies. It's just a matter of handling
> > disambiguities in a good way.
>
> Pretty much the main reason I picked Dokuwiki was that it has
> hierarchical namespaces, something most (all?) other wiki software
> lacks.
If namespaces support is a good thing, why don't more wikis have it?
In my view (as previously stated) this is because namespaces go
against the wiki philosophy. All pages should be considered as remote
islands of independent pieces of information. (Breaking out of the
hierarchical mindset...) Every page should independently define itself
in order to simplify reuse from all contexts.
That said, I do believe namespaces *could* be useful in some very
specific, narrow and hierarchical contexts...
>
> But then, all my wikis contain several very distinct subject
> areas, with similar topics within each subject. Creating a
> new wiki for each subject would be a nightware. Whenever I've
> had to disambiguate pages on flat wikis, it always seems to
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