Fedoraproject wiki

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Sat May 30 19:23:49 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/30/2009 12:02 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> So could it be, that the search function could be made more effective if we stop using subpages in the 'Main:' namespace? Maybe we could follow some thing like wikipedia does, subpages are allowed only in the 'User:' namespace. Moreover since a wiki is after all a free-form source of information, wouldn't it be more logical to rely on the category system to organise the information rather than force some hierarchy by the use of subpages?
>>
>> Just a thought, what do you think? Is this a worthwhile thought?
> Fedora used to use MoinMoin where categories were extremely slow and
> sub pages were the only way to do things.  After the switch to
> MediaWiki, categories are the way to go but the conversion process is
> not over.
> 
> Susan Lauber, Ian Weller and others are working on this conversion.
> You can see some notes at
> 
> http://travelingtrainer.laubersolutions.com/search/label/planet_fedora
> 
> and more discussions at
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-wiki
> 
> IIRC, we have over 10000 pages in the wiki and it is going to take sometime..
> 

Thank you Rahul for the reply. I am really happy that this is being 
worked upon.

cheers,

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Suvayu

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