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| * Hierarchy is anti-wiki :( Is there some context in which you'd want to discuss a non-software-related "generic window manager"? If not, why the rename? Subpages may make sense for self-contained projects but they inhibit easy linking * There is no such thing as antiwiki except nonwiki. Categorizing it exposes the upstream trees to the user for easy viewing; is this not also a goal of wiki, of easily interrelating topics? Also, I guess I should reply to this comment on your user page instead of below if hierarchy is antiwiki :) * "Easily interrelating topics" requires easy linking which subpages break. I can no longer just smash words together and hope for a link to a relevant page; instead I have to make an explicit choice to make a link, remember which section the page was arbitrarily placed into (is GnuGo in Games or in Software?) and decide on the link text (since Section/SubSection/ActualPage isn't so good), and in the end I might as well be writing plain HTML. This problem was solved in 1996 with the category system -- for the GWM page, for instance, just add "CategorySoftware" to the bottom. Then looking at backlinks for CategorySoftware shows all software-related pages, and the page text can contain a manually-maintained index. (Some wikis define a special link type for category-membership links.) This provides a topic-based indexing system while conserving easy linking and permitting pages to belong to multiple topics. See [[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiCategories|WikiWiki:WikiCategories]]. * Heaven forbid you should be required to put thought into the organization of a body of data. Or to search for a topic first before "smashing[ing] words together" to hope for a relevant link. The many-to-one/one-to-many argument holds some weight, though. Feel free to rename any pages you see fit. |
Being the wiki home of Steve Killen,
or
A place to collaborate in an arbitrary number of projects.
Greetings and welcome! I invite you to participate to whatever extent you feel comfortable in this experiment of mine. The About page will tell you what's going on, including how to edit.
-- SteveKillen
Admin to-do (requests taken here!)
- Style footnotes
Linking to "tel:" URIs doesn't work. I think this could be fixed by changing the value of url_schemas, as described in HelpOnConfiguration
Can someone make a favicon? Here's a first attempt:
Fix your logo css -- ClintonEbadi
Inserting manual newlines to avoid covering page content with the logo is a sign of bad style
If you want to keep the logo floating into the content area you have a few options... (installing firebug makes it pretty easy to mess around with the css in the browser with immediate effect welcome to the future). Add clear: left to either #page or #content. #page is uglier: the page border also moves below the logo. In either case there is some whitespace to the right of the logo.
Add clear: left to at least div.contents. This would solve the immediate issue of obscured TOC lines, but then what about e.g. the horizontal rule below a heading and other cases?
Add clear: left to #content div. I'm not sure what the overall effect of that would be, but it would make most things that need to clear around the image do so.
Another suggestion: Move the logo (and search box?) into the sidebar, something like CommunityWiki's layout.
Hierarchy is anti-wiki
Is there some context in which you'd want to discuss a non-software-related "generic window manager"? If not, why the rename? Subpages may make sense for self-contained projects but they inhibit easy linking There is no such thing as antiwiki except nonwiki. Categorizing it exposes the upstream trees to the user for easy viewing; is this not also a goal of wiki, of easily interrelating topics? Also, I guess I should reply to this comment on your user page instead of below if hierarchy is antiwiki
"Easily interrelating topics" requires easy linking which subpages break. I can no longer just smash words together and hope for a link to a relevant page; instead I have to make an explicit choice to make a link, remember which section the page was arbitrarily placed into (is GnuGo in Games or in Software?) and decide on the link text (since Section/SubSection/ActualPage isn't so good), and in the end I might as well be writing plain HTML. This problem was solved in 1996 with the category system -- for the GWM page, for instance, just add "CategorySoftware" to the bottom. Then looking at backlinks for CategorySoftware shows all software-related pages, and the page text can contain a manually-maintained index. (Some wikis define a special link type for category-membership links.) This provides a topic-based indexing system while conserving easy linking and permitting pages to belong to multiple topics. See WikiWiki:WikiCategories.
- Heaven forbid you should be required to put thought into the organization of a body of data. Or to search for a topic first before "smashing[ing] words together" to hope for a relevant link. The many-to-one/one-to-many argument holds some weight, though. Feel free to rename any pages you see fit.
