[sfWiki-devel] Re: any out(still)standing problems?

[Todd L. M. <tm...@ha...>]

> Hence my request that searching for a page that does not exist would
> offer the create option. So: See a name you want a page for, select it,
> paste it in the search box, search, hit create.

	I am not totally opposed to having the search results page include
a 'create topic <searchtext>' link; others have suggested that it may be a
good idea.  I strongly believe, however, that it's better to link to too
much than to too little; it helps you pick out what you need to add
(especially with the `missing links' section on the info page), and I
believe it encourages participation, as well as connectivity in the
Wiki.  I will consider implementing this an option.


	So all of you think that the view/TopicName URL style is a good
one, and that the sfWiki, if at all possible, should be changed so that
all the links it generates (particularly from the search engine) should be
changed to reflect it.  Tim to a greater extent and Bill to a lesser want
(the option) to eliminate mentions of the web from the interface.  Tim
also thinks it would be a Good Idea only to link WikiNames which already
have page; I don't, but I'm willing to see if it's possible to provide
this as an option, as well.  Finally, a third option to include create
links from the search (Provided the term searched for /is/ a WikiTopic.  
It gets too messy, otherwise.).  These qualify as 'feature requests'
rather than 'bugs', I think, and I'll enter them in the sfWiki tracker as
such sometime tonight.  I'll look at the rewriting rules tonight,
and if view/TopicName is easy to add 'read' support for, I'll roll that
into release 3.5.  (Where 'write' support would be changing the sfWiki to
generate that style of link, as above.)

	Does that sound like a fair summary/plan?

-_Quinn


PS: While I would hope/think everyone named in the cc: is on the devel
list, I felt I should forward it there in case someone with an opinion has
been lurking (or, to my shame, forgotten). :)