Re: Idea for navigation

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Aaron Peterson wrote:

> I'd like to see this wiki be usefull as a wiki.

	Me too!

> I know you guys don't like having navigation structure, but I just came up 
> with an idea that would allow me to be happy/shut up..

	I don't want anyone to "shut up", I want to help build the largest 
and most useful Linux knowledgebase we can. 

> Your right that logical parent thing has limitations... but having one way 
> links makes it so that there is apperantly only one llogical parent to a 
> document...  

	It shouldn't be one way links, but a web.
> 
> example:
> 
> foo has a link to blarny
> 
> bar also has a link to blarny
> 
> blarny has no links back! (or only one to foo)
> 
> User goes to blarny from foo, hits back button to go back... and never learns 
> how to solve vis problem that was covered in blarny|!
> 

	Let's use your example.  I will *assume* (which I hate to do) that 
you meant "that was covered in bar" for the end, as you start out with 
"User goes to blarny" so, that essentially makes it (and please do correct 
me if I'm wrong):

User goes to blarny from foo, and never learns how to solve his problem 
that was covered in bar.

foo -> 
	blarney
bar ->

I'd still say that if bar was related at all to blarny, then [[bar]] 
should appear somewhere in the blarny article (or at a bare minimum in 
the ==See also==).  By everything being interlinked like a web, the nav as 
you speak of it becomes 100% redundant IMHO.

--jeremy