Wiki Navigation
Navigation in a Wiki should be made easy by certain of its Mechanisms and Features ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20131020
What are some useful ones?
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WikiLinks
- Internal - both forward links and BackLinks particularly ClickOnPageTitle
- External - reference and associated information
- Changes - mainly RecentChanges
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TopicClassification
- CategorySystem
- TouringMechanisms
What else is needed?
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TopicClassification
- TopicIndex ( Separately constructed, other than the semi-automatic CategoryCategory )
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Touring
- TouringStructures
- TourGuides (Locale SubjectMatterExperts)
- TourCatalog (Locale SiteExperts)
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ContextFeatures (Where a context is identified as type Topic or Category)
- ContextIdentificationMechanism (ContextNames)
- SearchingByContext
- LinkingByContext
- IndexesByContext