Wiki musings

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:17 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 24.08.2005, 08:01 -0400 schrieb Paul W. Frields:
> > > Maybe I missunderstand that, but wouldn't it be preferrable to have one
> > > integrated table with all content, marked as doc/draft/wiki in one
> > > column to provide an easy overview and orientation for the user? For the
> > > detail view you can easily organize it in a /doc  /doc/draft/ ...
> > > structure to fulfill the technical needs of the infrastructure. 
> > 
> > The problem I see with that approach is that with Drafts, we probably
> > want to *discourage* users who are casually browsing the Wiki from
> > gleaning incorrect guidance.  If they can read a table full of all the
> > docs at once, many of them will ignore admonitions and read draft docs
> > with an unwarranted level of confidence.  
> 
> That may be a problem, indeed. Perhaps it helps to use different colors
> for the row background (which may destroy the web design), or to use two
> or three separate tables?

Neither of those would address the problem of discouraging the casual
browsing.  They would merely be another kind of admonition.  IMHO the
tables should be on different pages, with the table of published docs
being prominent and the table of drafts... well, somewhere *less*
so. :-)

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