[vtk-developers] Namespaces on the wiki

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

Bill,

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Marcus,
>
> Just looking at the recently changed pages, here is one
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/List_of_filters
>
> It is paraview specific. It should be called:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Paraview/List_of_filters


I see what you mean - in this case it is a new book project Sebastien is
working on - he will move these.

>
> Unfortunately, there are hundreds of misnamed pages. All projects are
> guilty.
>
> ITK v4 minutes for example:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Minutes_101210


We can ask them to change future pages, and possibly do a mass move at some
point.

>
> For the Wiki examples, we have gone through and renamed the offending
> files. We are pretty consistent using
> Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx ...
>
> We chose the use of /'s since it aids in navigation.
>

I thought that this was the established convention.

>
> Marcus, you seem to almost always follow the / convention. ( I checked
> your contribs).
>
> I'm certain if we adopt a naming convention (like the VTK wiki
> examples, since we have over 600 of them) that others will gladly
> start following it.
>

I think so, Sebastien will change the ParaView book ones. It does make the
page titles a little ugly, but sharing a wiki instance means we certainly
need to be careful about the naming of pages.

Thanks,

Marcus

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 17:16:06 David Gobbi wrote:
> >> The wiki is shared by VTK, ITK, and ParaView (and other projects?).
> >> It can be hard to tell what pages belong with what project.  I thought
> >> that a while ago we agreed to keep the projects within their own
> >> namespaces, e.g.
> >>
> >> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples
> >>
> >> but there have been a lot of recently added pages that have very generic
> >> names.
> >>
> > Are there any specific examples you are concerned with? We have
> intentionally
> > added some pages that were intended to be applicable to all of our open
> source
> > projects. I know some of the pages documenting Git were added outside of
> any
> > of the namespaces on purpose for example.
> >
> > Marcus
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