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Problem: (Uniqueness of pages)

Users in the MA375 are posting new pages such as "6" -- referring to Problem 6 on their homework.

One can imagine this will cause problems when another problem 6 comes up in some other class. (It will probably come up even in the same class, same year.)

Solution:

One suggestion is to make it as easy to comply with this is adding a button on the editting page that does simple text parsing with the content being editted. The motivation here is it's easy for a computer to add long descriptions like "XYZ123 Smith Spring 2009", but would be a pain for a user to add into every link. Pressing a button to add that text after the link name in every link would work out.

For example Problem 6 would become Problem 6 (XYZ123 Smith Spring 2009). The parser could follow the simple rule, when you see [[, add the name of the first category in the page between parentheses right before ]].

Documentation: (a note to users regarding this issue)

Note: A page's name needs to be unique to all sections of all classes.

The best way to make a page which is specific to your class (like to discuss homework) have a unique name is to add the class name/professor/semester in parentheses at the end.

If the page relates to all classes (for example, a definition of Matrix) then its name doesn't need class/professor/semester

Alumni Liaison

Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and Purdue Alumni

Prof. Dan Fleetwood