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Glen Mazza commented on JSPWIKI-865:
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I'm not sure what it matters (who cares) from what page a new page was spawned.
AFAICT Wikipedia does not report on that information--does anyone really care
today whether it was the article on Ontario or on Canada that originally
engendered the article on Toronto umpteen years back?
Sometimes the motivations of the Wiki maintainer in writing from A to B can be
embarrassing for the Wiki maintainer or implicitly defamatory for B, not
something the maintainer would want broadcasted with a source/parent listing.
This additional information would also create more maintenance headaches. I
create ten articles on cities from New Jersey, I would want it shown that their
parent article was New Jersey. But if I accidentally created an article on a
New Jersey city from the Pennsylvania page, even if I updated the pages the
parent of that page will still be Pennsylvania, which would look bad on Wiki
pages, hence JIRA requests to allow people to change the "source/parent" of a
page so it would show New Jersey, defeating your apparent meaning of
source/parent.
Ultimately, wiki pages don't really have a hierarchy (even if a wiki is
internally implemented using one), all pages are of equal importance and
unrelated to each other except for whatever links they have between the two.
Storage of a source/parent field would incorrectly imply a hierarchy.
> Provide the source page on the Edit.jsp link
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> Key: JSPWIKI-865
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-865
> Project: JSPWiki
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Core & storage
> Reporter: David Vittor
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> When a new page is linked to from an existing page, e.g. [NewPage]
> The code creates a link like this:
> * https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Edit.jsp?page=NewPage
> I think it might be a good idea to include the original source page, like:
> * https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Edit.jsp?page=NewPage&src=CurrentPage
> Maybe these should be POST requests, but I think we should maybe go
> incrementally.
> I think it would be great for creating / storing the heirarchy of pages.
> Any thoughts?
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