[pmwiki-users] Re: Blog proposal

[Mikael Nilsson]

tor 2005-12-15 klockan 10:12 -0600 skrev Patrick R. Michaud:
> > i know is always nice to have the maximum freedom... but i just imagine
> > a pagelist full of links where we don't know if belonging to a blog
> > or just normal wiki pages.
> 
> I'm curious -- does it matter?  Why make a distinction between "blog
> pages" and "normal wiki pages"?  

Well, if you have, say, a wiki documenting PmWiki :-), and you have 15
blogs as well, you wouldn't want all those posts in the Main group...

But I think the PmWiki group mechanism is already good enough.
Especially as it it up to the admin to organize the wiki. I'd propose
that the default blog stuff should go to a Blog group, though, so that
new installation have a sane default setup.

> > >* An author can use (:blog OtherBlogTrail:) to post the current page
> > >  to blog trails other than the default.
> > 
> > the post can go in the blogtrail of another group?
> > in that case the page can be in a Group1 but be part of a
> > blogtrail in Group2? quite confusing...
> 
> I'm not saying that's the normal case, but I don't see any reason
> to say that an author *couldn't* do it that way.  As an example,
> I might want to have a "Blogs" group for all of the blog trails
> ("Blogs.Pm", "Blogs.Alice", "Blogs.Bob"), while the individual
> blog entries can go into groups based on other criteria.

I think it's a great idea! Especially since I can imagine new kinds of
blog setups that common blog software often does not support - such as
posting the same post to several blogs, or choosing between a "private"
blog and a work-related, shared blog. My blog entries in the shared blog
might still reside in "my" Group, for example (if that happens to be the
setup). Very flexible, and not confusing at all unless the admin makes
it so.


/Mikael

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