astral0pitek's blog

No matter how many different blogs and manuals I read on the Internet, I absolutely cannot find how I can really adequately create categories and pages in order to create a hierarchy that would not fall apart almost immediately. In terms of page hierarchy, I liked the xwiki engine better, because in it you can really link pages to each other and get a tree-like page structure that is very easy to maintain in its pure form.

There is no such structure in mediawiki. The hierarchy is absolutely flat, the pages are regular and pages that cannot be nested anywhere and must have unique names, because the media wiki structure is created like in any simple note-taking application. It was this kind of flat hierarchy that I wanted to avoid when I was looking for a place where I could write down my knowledge on tasks that I encounter quite often or for which I can hardly find information described anywhere in a form that is understandable to me personally. But unfortunately, I still have to put up with such a hierarchy and try to put all my efforts into maintaining the crutch hierarchy, consisting of colons and indicating pages and categories in order that leads to the page I need.

A small example of how much of a crutch method I use:

Sinology->Sinology:Applications->Sinology:Applications:Application->...

I find this as disgusting as possible, given the additional inconvenience of page titles being limited to 255 characters. I really don't know what I'll do in the future when I run into problems that won't allow me to maintain a nested hierarchy.