Moved your conference pages

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:JJU

Yeah, I totally agree that the namespaces are not intuitive. One of central conundrums of the UBC wiki is how to enable it to be both a shared community resource and a personal or group work space through an organizational framework. I try to balance (mostly unsuccessfully) a forced top-down organization with a flexibility that doesn't hinder the growth of the wiki and allows for a bottom-up approach to how pages should be organized (the idea being that the creators of pages would have a better understanding of their pages than an administrator). The namespaces are somewhat vague on purpose so users can better define their purposes themselves, however, I think we could definitely provide some better examples and documentation. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them (or see you edit them into the wiki).

I tend to treat categories as a folksonomy. I usually do not change categories that a user has assigned to a page (except if there is a typo). I will, however, add additional categories to a page if there are additional categories that that page would fit into. Thus categories are used more like tags than as a taxonomy. However, as the wiki gets built further out and there are more categories, I do try to structure them a bit hierarchically through the use of subcategories (other UBC Wiki users might view or treat categories differently). Again, the goal of all of this is to make info on the wiki easier to find and to provide a organizational structure that doesn't hinder usability.

Anyway, let me know if this makes sense and if I answered your questions (or if you have any thoughts).

Cheers,

Will - WikiAdministrator23:24, 19 July 2011