[Mapbender-dev] Re: Restructuring Wiki references to code modules

Tue Apr 25 08:41:19 EDT 2006

On Mon, April 24, 2006 16:05, Leonhard Dietze wrote:
> Hi.
>
>  > http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/DeleteGUI
>
> Wow, that looks quite good (deleteGui) - but as
> you said it is more for technical users. As I am
> not sure what the technical background of the
> mapbender-users is I suggest to change the order
> of your proposed structure: First the description
> in german/english and then followed by the more
> technical parts.
> This also helps when I am searching for the right
> module: You see a short description or at least
> the beginning of it right when you search for
> something and not the "Files"/"SQL" etc.
>
> This would e.g. mean:
> - English
> - .. Details/Notices
> - German
> - .. Details/Notices
> - References
> - SQL
> - Files
>
> Leo

Hi Leo,
thanx a lot for the input. Uli also suggeted something in that direction.
Lets wait and see what others might have to say and vote on it next week.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

> Arnulf Christl schrieb:
>> Hi,
>> please comment on the proposed new structure of Wiki references to the
>> code modules. As an example refer to this page:
>>
>> http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/DeleteGUI
>>
>> These Wiki links are currently added to all code modules as we go
>> through
>> the code cleaning and provenance review for OSGeo. Vice versa each Wiki
>> page with refrence to one or more code modules contains a link to the
>> SVN.
>> That way both are connected via a URL. This probably allows for highest
>> flexibility regarding future migrations. (All of this seems to be
>> standard
>> procedure in more techish Wikis like Confluence and thus we might even
>> eventually eventulate to postulate a switchulate... but I am still
>> reluctant to drop the additional features included with Mediawiki. But
>> who
>> am I. Huh? I don't hear anything... :-).
>>
>> This view on modules is somewhat more code centered and technical than
>> it
>> was before. It would first list the Code Repository link, then the GUI
>> SQL
>> followed by references and then a human readable description in English
>> (mandatory) and other languages (optional). To standard non-techy users
>> this would be less friendly. On the other hand, no standard user will
>> bother to really read ZoomIn and DeleteGUI SQLs as they will never need
>> to
>> do that anyway.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> The following template is available at:
>> http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Code_Cleaning#Wiki_Reference_Page
>>
>> == Files ==
>> : http://ww.mapbender.org/index.php/(Wiki Page Name)
>>
>> == SQL ==
>> <html>
>> <textarea>
>> INSERT INTO gui_element(fkey_gui_id, ...;
>> </textarea>
>> </html>
>>
>> == References ==
>> Links to related Wiki pages
>>
>> == English ==
>> Description of the module
>>
>> === More Details === (optional)
>>
>> ==== Even more Details ==== (optional)
>>
>> === Notices === (optional)
>>
>> === Warnings === (optional)
>>
>> == [Other languages] == (optional)
>> This is either a list of other pages with the same Wiki Page Name and
>> trailing country code, for German language "_de"
>
>
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