WikiNavigation

Navigation in a Wiki should be made easy by certain of its Mechanisms and Features ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20131020

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What are some useful ones?

• WikiLinks
  • Internal - both forward links and BackLinks particularly ClickOnPageTitle
  • External - reference and associated information
• Changes - mainly RecentChanges
• TopicClassification
  • CategorySystem
• TouringMechanisms
  • InterWiki - TourBusStop
  • RoadMaps

What else is needed?

• TopicClassification
  • TopicIndex ( Separately constructed, other than the semi-automatic CategoryCategory )
• Touring
  • TouringStructures
  • TourGuides (Locale SubjectMatterExperts)
  • TourCatalog (Locale SiteExperts)
• ContextFeatures (Where a context is identified as type Topic or Category)
  • ContextIdentificationMechanism (ContextNames)
  • SearchingByContext
  • LinkingByContext
  • IndexesByContext

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CategoryOrganization