On 30/7/2005, "Chris Nicolson" chris@c-nic.org wrote:
The problem I see with this approach is that it would work for a well established guide such as London as the locales are already defined for the guide. In new guides, one of the advantages of using the openguides software (and the whole wiki idea in general) is that the admin of the guide doesn't need to decide what the locales and categories should be - they evolve with the rest of the wiki just like the common layout of information or naming conventions employed by each guide. The authors of the content come to a consensus.
I don't think Ivor was suggesting doing away with the ability to add new categories and locales. More that, instead of a big <textarea> you'd get a list. You could add to the list, but it's going to be a couple of clicks and will only create one category or locale at a time.
So the path of least resistance, for those not in the know, is to choose from the list.
This will also solve the problem of Category_Chinese and Category_Chinese_Food -- because you get a handy lookup of the existing categories rather than having to know the convention that is in use.