On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:31:20 +0100 (BST), in uk.d-i-y "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:55:11 GMT, Phil Addison wrote:
I just looked too, and its a mess!! 380 odd articles. A good number have
been allocated to categories, but hardly in a hierarchical way. There
are also a number of redundant/empty or near duplicate pages, eg Thermal
Store, Thermal Stores, Thermal store. Also DHW and Domestic Hot Water.
Yerk I haven't looked that closely, those pages need merging and the
redundant ones deleting, yes pages can be deleted but perhaps not a normal
user access level.
For now, i'll just mark those as needing to be sorted out.
Dave L, can we nest your templates inside each other?
I think a template can call another, I've not tried. However I'd sort of
try an avoid that as it could easily make maintenance difficult. Lets
start with just the top level categories and if it's felt that
sub-categories would be useful they can be added later. Remember any
category pages shows the sub-categories of that page.
I don't quite see what your getting at, the whole idea of making it a
hierarchical structure is to have things nested. I can't see how putting
one template call inside another will create a huge problem, but if it
does the same thing can be done in html, in fact that may be easier with
an html savvy editor to make it clear whats within what.
Hopefully sub-sub-categories.
I'm also wary of getting to deep with levels. A sort of rule of thumb of
when a sub-category might be required would be if the article list section
of a category page could not be shown completely. People don't scroll
pages unless they really have to.
See response to your other post. I agree we don't want text for any
level sprawling over several screens. OTOH we don't want to artificially
sub-diivide a chapter to limit its content to 1 screen. A good hierarchy
would balance those points.
See my doc
http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/beta/FAQ_Pr...tents_List.doc. I'll
spend some more time on the 'shoehorning' process - may have something
to show tonight, if not in a couple of days.
I'm happy to take a hierachy and produce a wiki template from it. Let me
know when it has stabilised. B-)
Great, thanks, will do.
Phil