Re: Re: Lqwiki-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1

I guess I covered this in my last post, covering the different types of 
navigation and their strengths and weaknesses.

it's all simple.. some of it just takes a lot more work, and then there is 
maintenance, which nobody wants to do...  

another way to look at it, is, if it's simple, it can be done automatically

another thing is, why make people do an extra-not needed click?

I just realized that I might not be clear on what a WikiAction is,   it's 
essentally embeding automatically generated content into the web page.

{{baclklinks}}   would be replaced with a list of pages that link to the site.


> As a genral point and dealing implicitly first -
> simply clicking "What links here" on the "blarny" page
> will bring up links back to "foo" and "bar" and any
> others - trivial, simple - ergonomically speaking one
> might want to have a more accesible "button" for the
> "What links here" link - however... that's a different
> matter.

It is extremely nice to see the content, with the links that refer to other 
pages,   and it is a common enough action that it might be beneficial to have 
it automatically expanded for every page.  (have it turn of if the server is 
about to melt though)


>
> Dealing explicitly - links to "foo" and "bar" can
> simply be added to "blarny"'s body text or blarny's
> "See also" section if one considers them *very
> relevant* - again, trivial - depending on whether one
> would want a *systematic* approach here, we could
> simply stipulate an explicit guideline to make sure
> that if a "very relevant" page isn't linked in a
> page's body text, then maybe it should be the first
> entry in the "See also" section (or something similar)
> - again trivial.
>
> --Skyline
>