[D-community-discuss] choosing the right CMS

[Chris Lale]

Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 20:47, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
>   
>> MediaWiki namespaces are the prefixes on some special pages, e.g.
>> Special: for the special dynamic pages, Talk: for discussion pages,
>> User: for user pages, Wikipedia/YourProjectNameHere for project pages,
>> etc.
>>     
>
> but a similar feature can be achieved, but putting the contents in 
> directories, right?
>
>   

I think that wiki structure is independent of directory structure (not 
sure about Ikiwiki). In MediaWiki there are no real directories since 
everything is held in a MySQL db. However, you can have directory 
structure as well as namespaces. For instance you can create subpages. 
For an editable development version and a protected stable version of an 
article I have:

    http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Debian_basic_features
    http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Debian_basic_features/stable

Namespaces serve a different purpose to subdirectories - whether or not 
you use them depends on whether you need the sophistication.

-- 
Chris.