Re: New DevMo Roadmap and Progress

Nickolay Ponomarev wrote:

> My point was that unfortunately
> mediawiki software wasn't designed with such usage in mind, so the
> categories will not be as pretty as they could be.

Ah, ok, I see what you mean now.  That's a good point.  Hrm.

> I'm not sure though if putting the *whole* "path" to the article in its
> name is a wise idea. After giving it some thought (while discussing
> rules for MZKB), my current position is that categories and
> subcategories should be used to define the "path", while the article
> title should be as short as possible, while being unique.

Another good point, and I think you might be right.  I'll definitely 
rethink the pagenaming scheme with this in mind.

> It's not the wiki markup that makes it hard for me to read (I'm used to
> wiki). It's the fact that in internal links ("[[A | B]]"), "A" is too
> long, makes it hard to follow the text itself. Well, maybe it's just
> me.

Yeah, I'm just not sure how to address it.  Hopefully working out a more 
efficient pagenaming system will help.

> As far as I understand (I tried to look what kind of hooks mediawiki
> has - some time ago), this is the only kind of extensions it supports -
> you can define special processing for custom tags. IIRC, the output of
> such extensions must be HTML, and cannot include wiki formatting. I
> would like to be proven wrong here, though.

You might be right, actually.  I've been working off a possibly 
incorrect assumption that we would be able to extend MediaWiki behaviour 
however we wanted using extensions.

I'll have to research some more, obviously.

> Thanks for your reply and clarifications, I appreciate it.

Thanks for bringing this stuff up.  You have more practical experience 
with wiki use than me, so your suggestions are extremely valuable.  I 
have some rethinking to do now :)

If you know of any other issues we may run into that you've already 
worked through with the mozillazine wiki, please bring them up.  I 
really appreciate your input.

~ deb