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Hi,

The networking information in the wiki is noticeably bare, so I thought I'd contribute. I'd like to propose some changes to the way the Networking pages are laid out on the Wiki:

• Category:Networking - top level
  
  
  • Category:NetworkingHardware - category containing all the NIC information (could also remain as the current Category:Network_Devices)
    
    • NE2K
    • 3c90x
    • etc...
  • Category:NetworkingSoftware - the software side of networking - stacks, protocols, etc...
    
    • Network_Stack
    • Address_Resoution_Protocol
    • etc...

This means that the Main Page "Networking" link can go straight to Category:Networking, at which point the logical flow takes the reader to the correct place. Please let me know if this proposed structure is unsuitable in any way.

/agree

I think it's a good idea as well, but as with any orgonizations of the wiki, you need to try and resolve internal links that may have been affected (unless the wiki software already does this?).

No it doesn't, but it's basically a case of changing internal links and/or creating redirects.

That's fine - part of writing & moving all the networking stuff will involve editing the internal links anyway, so that's not a problem.

I'd create a subcategory for hardware and for protocols, and anything else that's not that specific can go in the main category (Like network stack, congestion, loadbalancing etc etc)

OK - In that case, I'll start moving stuff around when I'm next able to (probably either tonight or tomorrow).

I've made changes to be almost where I want it. I still have to write the protocols pages, fix up the Network_Stack page, and fix internal links, but the meat of it is there now.

Maybe it wasn't what you wanted, but i removed the NetworkingHardware Cat, because there was already one (Networking Hardware), which was not empty like this one (No pages in it). If i did this wrong, the page had same text as 'Networking Hardware'

// PHPnerd