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- | ===== OverviewPages ===== | + | ====== OverviewPages |
- | ==== What is it? ==== | ||
- | A kind of [[StartingPoint|StartingPoint]] that bundles links to special topics or information in a wiki. As a wiki grows, the amount of information grows as well, and it gets harder to find certain topics. A hierarchy often cannot suffice because there are always different views on a certain topic. ("It should be a child of that topic." | + | A kind of [[StartingPoint]] that bundles links to special topics or information in a wiki. As a wiki grows, the amount of information grows as well, and it gets harder to find certain topics. A hierarchy often cannot suffice because there are always different views on a certain topic. ("It should be a child of that topic." |
With an overview page you can provide several views on a certain wiki page and give the user an overview of everything that is in the wiki and covers a certain subject. | With an overview page you can provide several views on a certain wiki page and give the user an overview of everything that is in the wiki and covers a certain subject. | ||
- | ==== Usage ==== | + | ===== Usage ===== |
First of all, the homepage of a web, space (whatever...) should give a clear overview of what there is to expect in this web or space. These are the most important overview pages because they are the gate to all the information. | First of all, the homepage of a web, space (whatever...) should give a clear overview of what there is to expect in this web or space. These are the most important overview pages because they are the gate to all the information. | ||
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Then just look over your content and classify it in every way that comes to your mind and sounds useful. | Then just look over your content and classify it in every way that comes to your mind and sounds useful. | ||
- | ==== Example ==== | + | ===== Example |
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- | ==== Related Patterns ==== | + | ===== Related Patterns |
- | * [[StartingPoint|StartingPoint]] - a pattern to provide new users with the "need to know" - information about the wiki | + | * [[StartingPoint]] - a pattern to provide new users with the "need to know" - information about the wiki |
overviewpages.txt · Last modified: 2018/11/28 14:03 by splitbrain