[Mediawiki-l] Using a Wiki for multiple projects? HELP!

[Hans Voss]

Addendum:

I find that when I have such sort of problem I only have to poke
around in the wikipedia for a while to find a workable solution for
the problem. The Wikipedia's sometimes seem to consits of a lot of
individual projects (biology->species of flies, movies->James Bond,
movies->Harry Poter, etc.etc.etc.etc) which never the less share some
parts (like templates and graphics and generally good ideas).

On 8/3/06, Hans Voss <hans.voss at gmail.com> wrote:
> We adhere to rigid standards with categorizing all the pages. This
> makes it possible for our projects (currently 2 "and a half") to
> coexist in the same wiki without bothering each other when not wanted.
> They only share the Main Page, which is where most people start and
> where I link to the different projects.
>
> On 8/3/06, Kasimir Gabert <kasimir.g at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > You should look into DynamicPageList2, which will give you tons of
> > great control over displaying lists.  For your current case, you could
> > just turn off the displaying of the namespace but list all of the
> > items from it (you would not even need a category then).
> >
> > I hope this helps,
> > Kasimir Gabert
> >
> > On 8/3/06, Peter <ipbwiki.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > the wiki I'm running I use as a space for coworkers to collaborate on
> > > various projects. There are three significant projects right now, with the
> > > possibility of several more later. While we don't have all that many pages
> > > in there yet (a couple hundred I believe), the more pages we add the more
> > > difficult it's becoming to keep content separate yet organized.
> > >
> > > Currently we're prefixing the various project page names with a designator,
> > > which works fine. But if we do prefix, then the categories page lists all
> > > the pages by their prefix, rather than the main page name.. I tried a test
> > > to see if separating content out into it's own namespace would help, but it
> > > *still* lists the page under the namespace prefix. Needless to say this can
> > > be extremely frustrating if you've got several hundred items with a given
> > > prefix/namespace, and they all list under "O". Also, when I place items into
> > > their own namespace they are available on the Recent Changes list, but not
> > > the New Pages list!
> > >
> > > Anyway, sorry about being ranty. I guess what I'm looking for are either
> > > ways to fix the prefixing/namespacing so things list correctly, or alternate
> > > ways to organize content so a) projects don't step on eachother, and things
> > > are categorized correctly as an alternative browsing method.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Peter.
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