Date:         Wed, 2 May 2007 10:51:50 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: OT: wikipedia or ...?
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> From: Don Henderson
>
> Using the SEARCH button all of the following search terms
> list the page "Re-ordering Variables"
>
> - retain
> - order variables

how about: order columns?

> - order

> - reorder
> - re-order (admittedly this one takes you to the Talk page)

'order again' is not the same as 'change (the) order (of)'

> - change order

side note: YeahBut: 'change order' is a document
specifying work to be done
that is different from that described
in the original Requirements Specifications

> I will leave it to others to identify other search terms that
> should find the page.

ok, if I understand you correctly
you are saying that writers need to understand how the search engine
works
and choose their vocabulary carefully.

I agree with that.

note2self: test the search engine

> Categories that are relevant and well-defined ease in the
> navigation.


> The problem with the category that you have
> called FAQ

that was my original point with category:index

> is that virtually everything in the Sasopedia can
> be the answer to an AQ, if not an FAQ. So to Howard's point
> (at least I think it was Howard's point), the FAQ category is
> so broad and would include so many items that it becomes
> impossible to use (too many clicks).

Ok, I'll conceed to "Too many clicks!"

Let me reframe my suggestion as:
Writers need to think not just once,
but twice about the name of their articles.

I think I am still unclear as to what wikipedia mechanism
I can use to index the articles.
As I see it now,
-- and I have not done the wiki tutorial --
I do not think it appropriate to make an article
i.e.: an index entry,
that only refers or redirects user to another article.

> Well defined topical categories and search is the way to go IMO.

Do you propose that we writers replace the category:FAQ
with the word FAQ in our articles?

Ron making my taxonomy and checking it twice