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Developer post: Finding Your Way in JotSpot

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By jotspot_jim at 03/14/2006 05:37PM

Scott McMullan wrote an excellent post on navigating your JotSpot wiki over at the JotSpot Developer Connection.

Navigating and maintaining a sense of place when using a wiki can be difficult. When pages can be created almost anywhere, even the most meticulously gardened wikis can become confusing and hard to navigate, particularly for new users.

There are a number of ways to address this problem, but here are four common approaches:

  1. Displaying recently changed pages
  2. Displaying recently visited pages
  3. Displaying pages that are "under" the current page
  4. Displaying pages that link to the current page

While none of these views are visible by default in Jot, they're all easy to add to your wiki by packaging up a few lines of code as a plugin.


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