Posted by mtndan on January 14, 2008 at 4:49pm
Hi folks,
Have any of you Drupal wiki pioneers come up with a good way of mimicking namespaces? We're looking for a wiki solution for a corporate intranet and we already use Drupal for some other things... Seems like that is one of the missing pieces.
The main contenders besides Drupal for the wiki are Confluence, WikiSpaces.net, Dokuwiki and Mediawiki.
Any feedback or thoughts appreciated. Thanks!
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Namespaces
I wonder if you can use wikitools in conjunction with Organic Groups, plus roles, to accomplish this (plus you can get other non-wiki functions out of Groups, too)
One idea, anyway
Sam Rose
Social Synergy
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Sam Rose
Hollymead Capital Partners
P2P Foundation
Social Media Classroom
You know I thought about
You know I thought about that but quickly discounted it because when I think of OG I think of "restricted content", whereas I'm used to using namespaces as a purely organizational tool.
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RE: "namespaces as a purely
RE: "namespaces as a purely organizational tool"
I use taxonomy for this -- in conjunction with views, it provides a simple way of navigating and organizing content.
And, unlike namespaces, it allows for one piece of content to appear in multiple "places"
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers
FunnyMonkey
tags
That is a really great suggestion!
You could get the multiple hierarchies set up, so that you would in effect have mutliple-select meta "namespace" arbitrary tags, that hold smaller mnemonic freetagging tags within.
(Pathauto can even give microformats compatibility :) )
Sam Rose
Social Synergy
Blog
Sam Rose
Hollymead Capital Partners
P2P Foundation
Social Media Classroom
Use pathauto
If you use pathauto, you can pretty accurately create custom namespaces of whatever form you want out of nodes of different types, as well as users and categories, etc.
Thanks All
Thanks for the feedback everyone!
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Dan Katz, President
Electric Sage Designs LLC
www.electricsage.com
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Dan Katz
Solutions Architect, Acquia