On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:45:00PM +0100, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 9:33 PM, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:34:34PM -0600, Jason Spiro wrote:
2008/1/17, Philip Hunt cabalamat@googlemail.com wrote:
I notice you say "Now I wonder in general: why do there need to be multiple Wikias? Why can't all articles from all Wikias be one wiki?"
Because you get namespace collisions between the knowledge domains.
You don't *want* all wikis to be one.
Technical problems are there to be solved.When there are good arguments why you want something there is bound to be a way to manage it. If you get a namespace collision, you want to provide a "knowledge domain" disambiguation.. Obviously.. Think outside of your box, you stepped in it yourself :)
Obviously, I have to show my work, or people will fall off.
The major advantage of a wiki is that writers can just *write*, and mark things which ought to be pointers to other pages -- already written or not -- with the brackets, without having to engage in contortions like interwiki markup. This is why subpages aren't real useful in most wiki contexts, either.
This is not a problem that can really be solved by technology; all the solutions I can see resolve to Where We Already Are. That is: "a knowledge domain disambiguation" is "put that stuff on another wiki, it doesn't belong on this one".
If "the ability to reference that wiki's pages without interwiki markup" is *not* what you're looking for by putting them on the same wiki, what *are* you looking for.
(Hint: if it's single sign-on, see also Single Sign On)
Cheers, -- jra