Combining BreadCrumbs together with backlinks.
 * See [[http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/BreadCrumbs|Wikifeatures:BreadCrumbs]]
 * [[http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020303.html|What is good linking]]
 * [[http://gauss.ffii.org/|A wiki using Bread Crumbs]] Browse the index to see the BreadCrumbs

BreadCrumbs allow comfortable browsing over hierarchically-arranged subpages by clicking on parts of the page title.

To get the known backlink feature the user must click on the last part. This is highlighted by a different text color.  

This solution is backwards compatible to wikis that do not use subpages. In fact, people who use subpages will recognise the new feature quickly.

= Discussion =

Navigation by clicking on sub-page name is useful, but when its done on page title its the wrong use of the page title. There is a tradition that wikis do funny things with their title. This tradition is wrong, a title is too important to abuse.

We need this type of navigation, which is a common navigation device in many sites, answering the question: "Where I am in this site?" In a wiki, where there is little order, it is even more important.

But we don't want to do this with the page title. We have to rethink about the page title - do we really want to show all the page title including all the parent pages? maybe we can use only the last part as the page title. Then, we can add a small line of links above the page title. Similar design can be seen in Plone.

As for the backlinks - a more intuitive solution is a simple "Pages Linking Here" or similar link on the editbar or the actions menu.

-- NirSoffer <<DateTime(2005-02-07T21:21:33Z)>>
 Do you know the concept of bread crumbs, Nir? Maybe you should look it up at [[http://www.useit.com/|Nielsen]]<<FootNote(Very famious usability engineer)>> etc.
  This kind of comments do not contribute to the discussion.
   In fact, I am talking about 2 problems here. bread crumbs and backlinks. Reading about bread crumbs is not relevant for backlinks and vice versa. And knowing what the other one talks about is always a good base for a discussion.
    Fixing backlinks is not related to adding new feature, simply open a bug page for backlinks and move the discussion from here.

For the backlinks patch, see MoinMoinBugs/BacklinksAreBroken.

= Patch =

[[attachment:bread_crumbs.patch]]

== Themes patch ==
Patch other themes analogous.

{{{
--- /home/wiki/dev/moin-1.3.2/wiki/htdocs/rightsidebar/css/common.css   2005-01-09 22:05:32.000000000 +0100
+++ common.css  2005-02-06 23:05:05.000000000 +0100
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 a {color: maroon;}
 a:hover {color: red;}
 a.nonexistent, a.badinterwiki {color: #404040;}
+a.backlink {color: blue}
 }}}

{{{
--- /home/wiki/dev/moin-1.3.2/wiki/htdocs/rightsidebar/css/print.css    2005-01-09 22:05:32.000000000 +0100
+++ print.css   2005-02-06 23:57:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
        margin: 1.5cm;
 }Request

 
-a, a:visited, a.nonexistent, a.badinterwiki {
+a, a:visited, a.nonexistent, a.badinterwiki, a.backlink {
        color: black;
        text-decoration: none;
 }
 

 /* Headings */
}}}

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