[vtk-developers] Namespaces on the wiki

[Bill Lorensen]

Marcus,

Sounds like a plan. I'll send a note to the itk developers to remind them.

Bill

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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