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DominoWiki - Feature Request: Add PageRedirect tags


At the risk of a never ending stream of feature requests, DominoWiki may benefit from adding the ability to redirect automatically to a page with a different name that describes the same concept.

Similarly, namespaces or subpages or subcategories (maybe a rework of the existing cats already in DominoWiki) could help separate concepts in different domains, but having similar short names.

From http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SubPage :
The SubPage idea allows every main page to contain its own wiki universe of subpages. The subpages can be used to help refactor a large page without the problems of a LongPrefixBeforeEachPage.

Subpages of a common topic can easily refer to each other without a prefix, while outside pages require the prefix. (One could consider a "search path" extension to allow groups of pages to share subtopics.)


Meatball wiki has a good writeup regarding why a wiki must be organic:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WhatIsaWiki

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A wiki is fundamentally organized around concepts. [...] The wiki should also map onto the way the brain learns and stores information: through heavily-interlinked concepts, with some small handle (i.e. a name) pulling out a large chunk of information.

* Many names may naturally arise for the same concept; how do we get all these names pointing to a single page? A typical approach is to use PageRedirection.
* How do you handle overlaps between different subject areas in a single wiki — if the same name may naturally refer to different concepts in different contexts? How can you use common concept names — like "Talk" — to refer to different pages given different starting points? This subject is also known as namespaces, and is tackled on different wikis by means as varied as naming conventions, SubPages, or a LatticeSpace.


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