Documentation request

[Patrick Barnes]

My opinions on this thread:

1. We *should* use sub-pages for categorizing packages.  Sub-pages should 
always be preferred over categories when pages can easily classified under 
sub-pages.  Categories can then be used to compliment those pages.  When the 
pages are going to be scattered, tags can also be considered.  I don't know 
if "Packages" is the best name for the parent page, as we could probably 
better subdivide into multiple parental pages, such as our existing "Tools" 
and "Games" pages.  Each of these pages should have clear links to and from 
appropriate SIGs and other relevant pages and would be deserving of a 
category.  We could have a single, all-encompassing category to cover all 
such pages, such as CategoryPackages.

2. Keeping every page easily accessible is good, but we also have to avoid 
clutter, which detracts from the usefulness of accessibility.  Not every page 
must be linked to directly from its parent.  There are cases where pages will 
serve each other sequentially, or can be grouped by their siblings, in which 
case only one of them needs to be linked to from its parent.  The wiki does 
include macro features to assist in linking pages with their siblings, and 
this is easy enough to maintain manually.  As long as every page can be 
reached in a sensible fashion and can be found by someone who is looking for 
it, it may not need to have a link on its parent.  We do need to complete 
features like our SiteMap that will allow people to navigate to pages they 
are specifically searching for with ease, and do so without the need to use 
the search feature.

It's all about balance.

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