[General] Wiki Homepage != Landing Page

[Mimi Yin]

What if we used the Projects Wiki to store these meta-pages?

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On Jul 11, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

>> I don't think it should remain in the Product Wiki as it is meant  
>> to be a portal page for the entire wiki. Can it be  
>> chandlerproject.org/WikiHome?
>
> Ah, that's probably part of the issue.  Because, actually, that  
> would be great, but it's kind of a hassle to implement.  Wiki pages  
> need to live inside a Wiki, so the page can't be /WikiHome, it  
> needs to be /SomeThing/WikiHome.
>
> [Hmmm]
>
> Well, I wrote a paragraph here about how this issue is hard and I'm  
> afraid we'll have to pick a area for now.  Then I tried something  
> out and although it's a hack, it might be ok.
>
> You can go to http://chandlerproject.org/WikiHome now and it shows  
> you the wiki home page.  The page is still *actually* at Product/ 
> ChandlerProjectHome, it's just you can view it at this other URL / 
> WikiHome.  Edit links still go to the original, for instance.
>
> That's probably the best I can do for now.  The page itself does  
> need to be in a particular wiki, and I urge us to pick one of  
> Product, Teams, Notes, Developers wiki instead of creating a new  
> top-level one.  (Main also exists in theory).
>
> We have other pages in this same category; meta-pages without a  
> home. Knowing that even if we hide it with URL trickery it still  
> has to be *somewhere* (according to TWiki, sorry), which wiki area  
> will be most suitable?  Product or Notes probably.  (Where's the  
> license go, btw?)
>
> It seems odd that there's no appropriate place in our wiki taxonomy  
> for "meta" stuff or project stuff.  Is that something we can  
> correct? Pushing them "up one level" is causing problems for me.
>
> -- Jared
>
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