[p2p-research] P2P Foundation page Category:Commons has been changed by Mbauwens

[Michel Bauwens]

when an entry page is forced into a loop in a category page, no editing
whatsoever is possible ...

I prefer the hassle, and the freedom, to edit any page .. I don't see what
is distributed in taking pages out of a commons into no man's land ..

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Category pages are great for collecting together a couple of hundred
> links automatically, but even collecting the highlights for the
> category could be done in other ways.  This is a step in that
> direction, allowing us to make focus pages that collect information
> from lots of locations without the editing hassle, and leaving some
> choice to the article owner about what is included, which I think is
> very neat.  The behavior is by design, and is a distributed approach.
>
> A
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Michel Bauwens wrote:
> >> you change the page, you change all the places
> >> where the template is listed, regardless of context,
> >
> > I don't care what you decide, but you may want to
> > know this is considered a 'feature', not a 'bug'.
> >
> > Most all programming languages use this approach
> > through techniques such as #include and/or macros
> > because it makes maintenance much easier - when a
> > typo is fixed, it is fixed in all places the text occurs.
> >
> > The copy/paste approach is considered bad policy
> > because, to be thorough, every edit is incomplete until
> > you search the entire codebase to find all other places
> > that must be updated.
> >
>
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