hello
why were all the occupant's graphics and poems
from all their user websites changed?
is there something happening i wasn't told of before now?
appy holidaze!
ok - now i can see that the older user pages still remain,
but are unconnected to the new user destinations.
what to do? what to do? ;-)
vcoo
- i don't think anything was changed, V ...
- i started to 'catagorize' pages awhile back in hopes that
- everyone who created a page would utilize this method of
- linking everything via catagory.
- iow ... any page can be in a number of categories ...
- for example, the papalagi pages are linked to both my and
- yosy's catagory ... as it is he who first introduced me to
- the papalagi papers long ago provided me with most of the
- articles and i then made the web pages.
- also ... they are of interest to him, as well as i so if you
- go to yosy's page or to mine ... you will find links there
- to them. and the same should be true of the category pages.
- this is what Robin has been trying to get in motion ...
- as he has a handle on how this works ... and we here at PeaceWiki
- really haven't taken advantage of it.
- i tried, but it's a lot of work to do on one's own ...
- as ideally people should be doing this as they create pages.
- see Category:Browse for the idea ... everything being linked
- via subject/category.
- it seems sort of backwards at first ... reverse polish notation
- if you will ;) and you have to play with it a bit to see how it
- works.
- example: i added [[Category:Val]] to Metaphysics
- so now at the bottom of that page ... you can see it is listed in
- the Val category. and ... when you go to Category:Val, which you
- can also get to from Category:Occupants ...
- you will see Metaphysics listed there. i'll let you play at adding
- the other Metaphysics pages or whatever you want in you Category.
- and i'll work on more category links as get a better handle on this
- and find time as well. -ts-talk 14:37, 30 Nov 2005 (UTC)
Gosh.
Why cannot the 'category' links interlink to the original user pages?<br?
is it neccessary to redesign everything to the 'category' page, now?
v
- no. the category is only an index ... a way of putting subjects in categories.
- iow ... i added your first metaphysics page to your Val category ...
- by adding [[Category:Val]] to the bottom of that
- metaphysics page. now ... any one cruising the Occupants category ...
- who clicks on the Val category ... will find that page linked to from there.
- so it becomes a 'tree' ... an index. you could create a Category Metaphysics
- as well ... and add that category to each of the metaphysics pages ...
- then they could all be reached via category browsing.
- this is how wikicities was meant to be set up and navigated.
- we just never took advantage of it.
- go to the main wikicity site and search for category ...
- i think there are some tutorials ... and there are some wikicities that
- make extensive use of it ... just can't recal right now which ones.
- so you can look at them to see how it is used.
- it just takes a lot of organizing now that we have so many pages ...
- had we done then from the get-go with each new page creation ....
- it would already be in place.
- i just haven't had time to play much with it yet ...
- you can check out my ts category to see what pages are there ...
- and go to them, click edit, and see the code at the bottom that puts them
- there. i've forgotten just how it goes right now ... having not played
- with it for quite awhile. as i say, i started ... but if no one else is
- going to do it ... i find it hard to stay motivated to put in the time.
- i'll do my own pages as i find time, and others can use the example. or not. ;)
- -ts-talk