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ClustersWithoutClusterPages

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I think we should be able to make clusters without cluster pages.

A lot of time, you want to perform 10 operations on a set of pages, and you want to cluster them.

You don't want to have to make a whole page to just group a bunch of edits.

Now, if you want to attach an explanation to a cluster, that might be something we want to allow. But I don't think it should be required.

The default cluster page should show you:

  • The last X days of edits. (like in RecentChanges)
  • A list of the pages in the page cluster, starting with most recently edited.

You could implement the cluster by automatically generating a page as soon as a cluster is assigned. Whatever.

Just: If we want to actually use clusters, then we shouldn't have to make entire pages. Right now, it's too much work. It requires too much thought and consideration.

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Just pick a WikiWord, stick it at the top, follow the ?, create a blank page. We don't need complex content, or explanations. Is that still too much effort?

Or just pick one of the pages in the cluster to be the root, as I did with CliquesAndCommunities.

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Yes. It is too much effort.

(BTW, I would think you'd want to delete that page when you're done with it, too.)

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i don't know that it's too much effort per se (i am not that wiki-trained yet to expect a minimum), but it's not intuitively obvious, i think, and that makes it less powerful.

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Lion: I think I get what you're driving at now. The problem is in clustering revisions, right?

Piranha: Are you saying that editing clustering is nonintuitive, or viewing? Is the problem how we tell the engine to cluster, or how the engine uses clusters?

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editing. took me forever to figure out how to make a cluster, and i am not particularly slow on the uptake.

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You can blame Alex for that ;) Can you suggest a better way without making clusters extrinsic? For instance: PeriPeri uses the following line in its metadata-header:

 Publisher: <name of cluster>

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