Wiki and Names Spaces

[Arnulf Christl]

Benjamin Thelen wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> I'm sorry that I (at the moment :-)) have to say, that I don't have the
> least idea and that I cannot do anything until next week. Sorry for that.
> 
> But, I did forward your mail and we will discuss that issue soon and
> hopefully find out, how to accomplish your request.
> 
> 
> I'll let you know as soon as possible.
> 
> Best,
> Ben

Hi,
I guess that we should follow two different paths (hmmm, this might also 
be discussed in the Wiki I guess. Hmm hmm, I guess too much I guess. :-)...

1. Set up a separate Wiki for each project (it seems like MapGuide would 
like to have one too). Then we can delve into the use of InterWiki links 
which I think are "the way" to (technically seen highly loosely) connect 
Wiki content very firmly.

2. Start using categories to organize things.

I think I would prefer the first way to do it as it keeps content 
separated and much more better organizable. I am heavy user of "recent 
changes" and I expect the changes list to reflect on one type of 
content. With respect to OSGeo I would not want to see too many 
"Mapbender has corrected this typo" and "GDAL has resolved this bit 
shift issue" but rather see what OSGeo does. Whenever something major 
does happens in one of the other project (Wikis) it can be added (fx) to 
the news section of the OSGeo Wiki and who is interestd then cann follow 
the InterWiki link to the corresponding MapGuide/GDAL/Mapbender/WhatEver 
Wiki.

Additionally this would allow GeoTools to stick with their choice of 
Confluence Wiki and GRASS to keep with whatever they have, etc. Its up 
to the projects to choose to migrate and the projects have to make sure 
their InterWiki links work fine. We have done this when we migrated from 
ewiki to Mediawiki half a year ago and it still works.

Anybody in need of migration or setup support can contact us.

The longer I come to think of it the better I like version 1.

== Technical Issues ==
It might make sense to run one instance of Mediawiki software and have 
it connect to deifferent databases. That way administration and 
maintenance of the Wikis would also become easier and cause less work 
(sac will like this). We are still working on how to do this, once we 
found out we'll report.

Best regards,

>> Benjamin,
>>
>> I am curious if there is such a thing as specialize name spaces or
>> something
>> similar to allow "subsections" of a wiki specific to a topic area.  For
>> instance, I would like to use the OSGeo wiki for a GDAL wiki as well,
>> but I don't want to pollute the general wiki with a lot of GDAL collisions
>> on names.
>>
>> Is there an easy way of having wiki's that can refer to one another
>> in a similar fashion to internal references?  Or a way of having names
>> spaces?  Should I just use a convention such as prefixing all GDAL topics
>> with GDAL: ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
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>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>> warmerdam at pobox.com
>> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGF, http://osgeo.org
>>
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