Rich Morin wrote:
At 3:18 PM -0800 3/22/06, Jan Steinman wrote:
Human knowledge is rife with hierarchies -- not because they are "natural," but because humans invented the model.
I agree somewhat with this, but there are many situations in which the universe enforces hierarchical organization. For
I don't know the history of mediawiki, but don't forget there are pages/sub pages (and I agree they must be very strongly related to be usefull), but also categories/sub categories.
and that can accomodate many categorisation kind (one page can have more than one category). This is also very powerfull.
However, the controversy comes probably from the fact than mediawiki is principally aimed to wikipedia, but is so good that many others uses are now frequent :-)
jdd