[Tagging] Merging tagging scheme on wiki pages of Hiking, route=hiking, route=foot and Walking routes
Hufkratzer
hufkratzer at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 11:11:36 UTC 2019
I would also prefer the transclusion (template) instead of just links.
It may be possible to split it up in and a part with more general tags
(e.g. name, ref, operator, distance, ...) that are also used with other
kinds of routes (e.g. for
route=running;bicycle;mtb;horse;piste;inline_skates), so that this can
be used there too, and in a part with hiking/walking specific tags (e.g.
network, educational).
On 13.08.2019 12:31, Paul Allen:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 09:52, s8evq <s8evq at runbox.com
> <mailto:s8evq at runbox.com>> wrote:
>
> Would it not be easier and more clear if we just keep one, and add
> a link to it in the others?
>
>
> A principle used in programming is "DRY." Don't repeat yourself.
> Maintaining the same
> code in two or more places will cause problems down the line when one
> version gets
> changed and the other does not.
>
> Documentation is a little different, because you often wish the same
> information to appear
> in several places. This is the case where the documentation is
> extensive but people
> assume that everything they need to know about a topic will appear in
> one place. OTOH,
> the desirability of not repeating yourself increases a lot when you
> have many translations
> of the material.
>
> One way of handling this is a link. Another way of doing it offered
> by the wiki is transclusion.
> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion and
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion/How_Transclusion_Works
> (the first of those two links transcludes the second of those links,
> just so you can see how
> it looks).
>
> There are arguments against each way. If you link to a full page then
> the poor user
> encountering the link has to wade through that full page to find the
> table. If you transclude
> then those wishing to edit the page, or even the transcluded material,
> may find it
> difficult to figure out how to do it. You could, of course, put the
> table in its own page and
> link to that, which avoids the editing problem and the information
> overload problem, but
> still means more clicks and page loads are required than reading a
> page with a
> transclusion.
>
> Up to you which one you go with. Note that at some point in the
> future, somebody may
> decide that whichever way you chose to do it was wrong and edit it to
> do it differently. :)
>
> --
> Paul
>
>
>
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