Hi there, new to wikis and wiki philosophy in general. Got attracted to
Instiki because of its "plug and play" abilities.
Is there a way to create directory levels within Instiki? A way to not
make everything be a flat list of pages?
/a/foo
/a/bar
/b/foo
/b/bar
/c/foo
For example, I want to create a page called Foo. The concept Foo can be
explained in different ways depending on context. It seems like I have
a few options to capture the different contextual information of Foo. I
could make a single page and write [n] different paragraphs each
explaining Foo in a particular context, but then I would end up with a
very long page (i.e. 500+ lines). I could create pages whose names are
generated from Foo and it''s context, FooA, FooB, FooC, but that is
unappealing because I could end up with very long WikiWords. I could
create a separate WikiWeb for each context, A, B, C, create a page
called Foo and have links to each web but then I would need [n] Instiki
instances running and a waste of some webs (context C only applies to
Foo, not Bar and Xul).
It seems if I could add directory names, I could organize my content all
within one web. I don''t think this would trample on the network
philosophy... although it looks like a hierarchal directory structure, I
am simply creating more bins for my bits. When viewing a page in a
directory, it uses that directory as the root reference for all other
wiki pages unless you specifically link out.
For example
Source page: http://localhost:2500/instiki/show/a/foo
Link in page: [[bar]]
Result page: http://localhost:2500/instiki/show/a/bar
Source page: http://localhost:2500/instiki/show/a/foo
Link in page: [[root.bar]]
Result page: http://localhost:2500/instiki/show/bar
Any thoughts on this issue would be much appreciated. Thanks.
-Ryan