Wiki musings

[Peter Boy]

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?


Peter