[e-lang] Convert Walnut to MediaWiki

David Hopwood david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Dec 8 19:02:07 CST 2006


Mark S. Miller wrote:
> Martin Scheffler wrote:
> 
>>http://www2.deltamobile.com/wiki/index.php/Walnut
>>
>>OK, I've split by sections now. Should I split these pages further down?
> 
> I think so.
> 
>>Some of the pages are gigantic. I built the pages as subpages to Walnut/.
>>Maybe I should extract the sub-sections as top level wiki pages?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the subpage idea and how it relates to other wiki 
> structuring ideas. If subpages organize pages into a ordered hierarchy, then 
> representing a book as a tree of subpages seems natural. If someone wants to 
> print out a larger unit, is there some way to say: "Gather the tree of 
> subpages rooted here"?

Whether there is or not, there shouldn't be two copies of the same content.
I've made some minor edits to the first subpage of the split version, but it
rather defeats the point of a Wiki to have to manually do edits in two places,
and anything that is not done to both copies can easily be lost.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>



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