Re: Twiki stuff (Attn. RK)

From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Sun Jun 30 2002 - 08:37:11 EDT

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    Mark,

    Thanks, its all good advice, especially the links to renamed pages. It
    just takes time -- I'll try to do some of it as I find time.

    What I did the other day was a fairly massive renaming. (Just trying to
    make excuses -- and I was wondering how much negative feedback I might
    get about the prefixes -- thought I might have to move back to the old
    setup -- what do you think?) I was sort of hoping not too many people
    had bookmarks or anything similar. If I rename in the future I'll put a
    page back with the old name saying "Moved to <newpagename>" -- that's
    what I try to do on WikiLearn. (It's a shame TWiki doesn't do that
    automatically, but there has been some discussion about that.)

    I also agree about shortening the names.

    Of course, it is a wiki, so if you find some time, feel free to jump in
    and help.

    Mark Gilbert wrote:
    > Eh, first off, with all due respect, please remember to place symlinks
    > (or some twiki-specific equivalent) when renaming topics so that old
    > links aren't broken. Example: BugPolicy was moved to FaqBugPolicy.

    The only twiki-specific equivalent I've thought of is recreating the
    original page with a "Moved to <new wiki page>" note.

    >
    > Also, consider making sure that topic names are as open as possible.
    > Like, LinFaqTrueTypeFontsOnLinux applies to unix in general, not just
    > linux.

    I was renaming other people's topics -- do all the topic under LinFaq
    apply to all Unixes, or do only some? (Leading to do we need two
    categories, like LinFaq and UnxFaq, or do we change them all to UnxFaq
    (or do you have a better suggestion -- UnixFaq isn't too long).
     
    > And, on the subject of LinFaqTrueTypeFontsOnLinux, is it against wiki
    > culture/tradition/chivalry/whatever to make the topic names a wee bit
    > more concise?

    No.

    > Example: LinFaqTrueTypeFontsOnLinux is long and
    > redundant. Since we already know it's for linux because of "LinFaq",
    > could we drop the "OnLinux"?

    Sounds good to me.

    > Just a couple suggestions, to be freely ignored

    I don't want to ignore them. I may not act on them immediately, and I'm
    interested in any major objections or alternate suggestions, as well as
    help to make the changes.

    regards,
    Randy Kramer

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