Wiki focus - user versus developer documentation
Michael Shiloh
michael at openmoko.org
Sat Aug 30 19:23:03 CEST 2008
Minh Ha Duong wrote:
>> By using an extension of MediaWiki it's possible to create custom
>> search boxes (like the Help search on Wikipedia [1]), so I think there
>> won't be a problem with the usability. I really like the idea of
>> having namespaces on our wiki because its content is so diverse.
>
> Hi Marko,
>
> Let me rephrase Michael's points:
> 1. Overloaded admins = don't even think about it IRL.
> 2. Excluding developer-oriented pages from the default search namespace would
> be a bad idea.
Wow. Rephrased so well that it sounds like a better idea than the one I
had originally :-)
Now that someone has started working on categories I am more optimistic
that we can get what we need without namespaces.
Thanks!
>
> So let's use the namespaces we already have as best as we can.
>
> Minh
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