On 25/01/07, Christopher Fuhrman christopher.fuhrman@etsmtl.ca wrote:I
- From what I understand about MW software, there are only 16 name spaces
allowed, and my department has more than 30 courses. Assuming every professor jumped on board with the wiki approach (which is unlikely), it seems we'll run out of name spaces with this strategy of one per course. If we don't use course-specific contexts, I can foresee disagreements about content on pages for different contexts. It could be interesting perhaps to have one context, but with course-specific information separated on that page. Professors aren't going to be agreeing on definitions, because of the principle of academic freedom.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces
- On a given page, most of the links will have to be prefixed with the
course's name space. This seems to be a lot of redundant prefixing, and runs the risk of an errant global page being created when done hastily. Is there a way in MediaWiki pages to define a "default" name space prefix?
I don't think so, but this was something that was promised for the namespace manager.
- What about the basic concepts of "Talk:", etc. for MW layout? It seems
like if I use a name space convention as stated above, Talk:Cohesion would not be about my course's version of Cohesion, but rather the general meaning. This is ambiguous.
Most namespaces have an associated talk namespace, so the talk page for LOG120:Cohesion would be Talk_LOG120:Cohesion.
Rob Church