From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-01-12T14:16:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Wiki sub-pages

> As admin,[1] I can do that. However, I was wondering what problem we're
> trying to solve here. Wiki's are not intrinsically hierarchical
> structures: they are designed to be mostly flat. In fact, there's
> sometimes an interesting serendipity involved: you edit a page putting
> in a WikiLink to some new fact you want to talk about, only to discover
> that the page already exists.

FWIW, I went to the trouble of adding full hierarchy support in my
home-grown Ruby wiki I use on the job. Before I added it, I was using it to
manage stories for projects and started creating page names like
ProjectA_ModuleB_AddTheThingToTheOtherThing, the length of the names was
getting a little much. Plus, similar to Gavin's comments, I wanted to have
pages like KnowledgeBase, for different apps: ProjectA/KnowledgeBase,
ProjectB/KnowledgeBase.

I've been using it for some months now -- it's a bit weird, and some uses of
the hierarchy come back to bite me, there's a balance and such a thing as
too much hierarchy. Plus it's easier to have duplicate pages living under
different parent dirs, thrwarting said serendipity. Anyway, just my $.01.

Chris