Uweb talk:Community Standards
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Purpose
Create a list of key words for searching this community for programming assistance, tips, and "getting started" pointers.
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(Note: Be sure to include comments, like definitions of acronyms.)
- Uweb_ListServ
- put Category:Uweb_ListServ on pages to be searchable for articles about the ListServ -- User:DonnaCote
- WS_for_beginners
- Web Services on a box with Apache, how to get started, example code
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We can use namespaces, but I think that would be a bit of a hassle for this intended use. What we need is organization; namespaces are typically used when you have content in broad general categories and need to be able to re-use page names. A great example would be documenting or speccing a new application in the Wiki.
The way this generally works out in the "Real World" is that a group of people are selected as 'editors' for the wiki, and they impose some sort of structure on the main part of the site. Something that I've seen done around here that annoys me (as the rest of the Wiki World does not seem to do it) is the h1's as links thing on the front page. The rest of the decisions on how articles are structured and what links are democratic, and settle out over time as someone gets fed up with things being a mess and starts to organize it or flesh out an article.
We can use Categories to manage most of this. For example, check out Category:PHP. Not only are there other links to pages that deal with PHP, the Category page is an article in and of itself. Really, we just need a list of Category pages somewhere, done in an organized fashion.
We could also start using templates and a "Category:To Do" over in the left navigation bar. --Kkatzke 13:50, 31 January 2007 (CST)
Don’t know if this helps, but there is a link for a “what’s in here†table of contents to the wiki: http://uweb.tamu.edu/index.php/Special:Allpages
Kendra (01/31/2007)
Might I suggest that we use namespaces for naming wiki pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Namespace. This is what we do over at the Energy Systems Lab, and it has proven to be quite an effective technique. My boss even set up a page that holds a table of the base namespaces, what projects they correspond to and details about the project.
Robert (01/31/2007)
Category vs Namespace
In my experience having a Category:Categories page (which I think already exists) is most useful for a Search. With Twiki, I don't like that a Search only looks for a match with a Twiki name (page name). So, with Twiki, we are managing fairly well with Category: tags, from Category:ConCalls to Category:Users (with an alphabetical listing). This particular experience has been with a community of scientists, modelists, IT and grid computing folks. Most of us found a wiki to be terrible for communicating or for exchanges of ideas. It's been most useful for documentation: what did we do, what went wrong, what went right, how are planning to fix problems that appeared... Lessons Learned, Demo Test Post-mortem, etc.
Which way are we going to go? -DonnaCote (2007-Feb-05)
