Namespaces, other wiki comparisons

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mtndan - Mon, 2008-01-14 16:49

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!


Namespaces

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samrose - Mon, 2008-01-14 17:26

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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You know I thought about

mtndan's picture
mtndan - Mon, 2008-01-14 17:28

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

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billfitzgerald - Mon, 2008-01-14 18:41

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

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tags

samrose's picture
samrose - Mon, 2008-01-14 19:06

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


Use pathauto

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cwgordon7@drupal.org - Mon, 2008-01-14 22:29

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

mtndan's picture
mtndan - Mon, 2008-01-14 23:28

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

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Dan Katz, President
Electric Sage Designs LLC
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