[cl-wiki-devel] Thoughts about page storage

[Stefan Scholl]

On 2005-09-08 23:43:36, Vehbi Sinan Tunalioglu wrote:
> Nice. But how to do that recursively or how to find the category of a
> given page? Actually, this is a question of whether we want to implement
> the idea of categories, and if yes, how comprehensive it should be.
> Stefan, the maintainer, should maybe decide it. But, I think that I'll
> need a category mechanism that can grow in depth as well, like
> subcategories.

Most wikis use categories, even if their wiki engines don't have
propper support for it.

The most primitive wikis just put a wiki word of the category on
the page. Then the listing of every page in that category is done
with the backreference feature (mostly a link on the page name in
the head of a page).


A propper way for categories could be a nice "USP" (hehe) for
CL-WIKI.

But I think this feature is not one of the top priorities because
with a nice storage system it should be possible to add this very
easy.

An index for *all* pages would be nice (highlighting internal
links for non existant pages). Categories could be added with a
similar functionality.

The namespace should stay flat. A category could be another meta
information about a page. Together with the last modified date,
author, etc.


Regards,
Stefan