How should I structure namespaces...categories...etc

teeber99

2019-01-25, 19:28 #1

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I am designing a biological taxonomy Dokuwiki. ...phylum,class,order,family,genus,species
I have hundreds of individual pages in each group. I would like to organize the pages such that all the phylum pages are in a phylum folder, all the class pages are in a class folder, etc. etc. But I would like to have internal links on any given page that opens a page in the previous level folder. That is, a link on any given class page will open to its corresponding phylum page.

It seems namespaces will not allow internal links to other namespaces? Or what am I not understanding...probably a lot...

cziehr 2019-01-25, 20:29 #2

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Quote by teeber99:
It seems namespaces will not allow internal links to other namespaces?

It is no problem to link from a page in one namespace to another page in another namespace.

An alternative of organizing pages in namespaces is using the tag-plugin. I started my wiki in 2011, also based on a namespace-structure. If I would start from scratch today, I would use the approach with the tag-plugin instead of a namespace-based-structure. But this depends on your needs and your data.

Greetings,
Christoph

MartinR 2019-01-25, 20:31 #3

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Have a look at https://www.dokuwiki.org/namespaces.

As I understand your question you wan to have for example a namespace called genus which contains (amongst others) a page called "Felis". You also need a namespace called species within which is a page called "Felis catus". These appear to DW as

:genus:felis
:species:felis_catus

On the :genus:felis you can refer to [[:species:felis_catus]] and on :species:felis_catus you can refer to [[:genus:felis]]. Please note the leading :, it forces the path resolution up to the top. If you're not happy with UNIX-style pathnames, and I've understood your requirements correctly, then I would seriously suggest you restrict yourself to the above.

Relative paths are possible ("up a level then come down a different route") but slightly less intuitive. The relative forms of the above two links would be: [[..:genus:felis]] and [[..:species:felis_catus]]. Relative paths are important if, for example, you want to store the ''felis'' page in user>teeber>classwork>taxonomy_project>genus>felis since the moggies are then linked to by [[..:species:felis_catus]] rather than [[:user:teeber:classwork:taxonomy_project:species:felis_catus]]!

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