Creating Articles
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sasCommunity Forum : sasCommunity - general site feedback : Creating ArticlesBy TobyDunn on Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:25 am
Okay so I was sitting aounr this morning and created an Article (Editing Blog Entries). It didnt seem to save it to any one particular place that can be accessed. And there was no way of deleting it and I havent figured out how to move it once it is created. Seems to me when this sucker goes live there will be alot of this until the users get the hang of the Wiki. Shouldnt we have away of deleteing our own Articles etc....
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By Donh(sysop) on Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:38 am
Toby,
There is no issue of "where" in a wiki. The article name is all that you use to define it. There is no concept of folder hierarchies. You find pages via categories and via links. Read the "Organizing Articles" link in the getting started box as a way of introducing you to how you organize araticles instead of the folder paradigm.
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By TobyDunn on Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:34 pm
Don ,
Okay so what your telling me is there is no way that a person can delete an article that they created even if that article was a mistake. All they can do is edit that article and by adding or deleteing tags in said article they or anyone else can control where the article will be classified under and/or able to be viewed at.
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By Donh(sysop) on Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:36 pm
Toby,
I thought I had replied to this already - but it was in the case sensitivity topic.
By not being able to delete a page means that links will NEVER EVER be broken if they ever worked. That is one of the basic tenets of collaborative sites. Once you create an article/page, you really have no way of knowing what links to it. So there is no way to update all the places that reference it. Thus, the concept is to keep it.
Of course, you can delete all the text. And the page remains dormant until someone decides to create a new page with that same name. They then see that it had a history that is now moot and the page/article name can be re-used.
I had the same first reaction you did. But after letting the Web 2.0 concepts sink in, it actually makes a lot of sense.
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