Mike Friedman wrote:
again".
Neither wiki nor hypertext in general is hierarchical, but
networked, with many small pieces of information each reachable by a
True, but I don't see any reason why it can't be both. I think this
feature would be most useful for maintaining large complexes of related
articles (such as the ones I've been working on relating to New York
City.)
One objection would be that the history of New York City is both a
subcategory of New York City and of American history. This looks
more like a network (web, mesh) than a hierarchy:
United States --> History of the United States
| |
| |
V V
New York City --> History of New York City
There used to be "subpages" in Wikipedia's first year, because the
originally used UseModWiki software supported this. However, this was
abandoned. Articles such as [[Sweden/History]] were then renamed
[[History of Sweden]]. Some argumentation is found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages
"Real" (classic, printed) encyclopediae have also wrestled with this
problem. In some, "language" and "art" are mere subheadings in the
article on Poland, in others, "Polish language" and "Polish art" are
articles of their own.
I think the least intrusive way to implement a part of your idea is to
introduce a "hide this subsection" link (a triangle icon) next to
today's subheadings, just like you can hide the table of contents at
the top of the article. For editing, storage and URLs, the article
would still be one whole. But for viewing, subsections could be
folded in and out.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se/