Help:Page names - Revision history

Ianh: +links

2009-05-24T10:28:39Z

+links

Ianh: bit more

2009-05-21T23:26:49Z

bit more

Ianh: Extract common intro

2009-05-16T21:19:18Z

Extract common intro

Ianh: Links

2009-05-16T21:08:56Z

Links

Ianh: Follow my own guidelines

2009-05-13T18:49:34Z

Follow my own guidelines

Ianh: Some thoughts about page names

2009-05-13T18:33:57Z

Some thoughts about page names

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The advantage of the wiki is that it is not rigid - it allows anybody to create pages on any subject. However, the contents of the wiki are visible to everybody - not just members of the club. This means that we need some basic standards to allow the wiki to be as useful as possible.

One of the main concepts of a wiki is that the pages should be complete in themselves - each page says something about what it is for and does not assume that a visitor arrives at the page via any specific route. This means that somebody finding the page via a search engine can understand what the page is for and the context in which it exists.

Part of this is to adopt a common style of [[Help:Page structure|page structure]]

Part of this is to adopt a reasonable page name convention.

* Avoid page names like "Trip to Wales", but make the page name quite specific - something like "Open boating trip to Llangollen 11 July 2009".

* Page names can be quite long - up to 255 characters - so they need not be single words.

* Page names may includes spaces. These will generate URLs with underscores, but the spaces will be displayed.

* Page names may include dashes or colons to indicate a structure. This may be better: "Open boating trip to Llangollen - 11 July 2009"

Wikipedia has a more full page on the subject of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name page names]

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−	* Wikipedia ~~guidelines~~ on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name page names]	+	* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions Wikipedia's policy on how to name pages
		+	* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Article_titles Section in Wikipedia's Manual of Style
		+	* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name Technical information about page names

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 General [[Help:Guidelines|guidelines]] on '''page names'''.
-* Avoid page names like "Trip to Wales", but make the page name quite specific - something like "Open boating trip to Llangollen 11 July 2009".
+* Avoid page names like "Trip to Wales". Instead, make the page name quite specific - something like "Open boating trip to Llangollen on 11 July 2009".
-* Page names can be quite long - up to 255 characters - so they need not be single words.
+* Page names can be quite long - up to 255 characters - so they need not be abreviated.
 * Page names may includes spaces. These will generate URLs with underscores, but the spaces will be displayed.
-* Page names may include dashes or colons to indicate a structure. This may be better: "Open boating trip to Llangollen - 11 July 2009"
+* Page names may include dashes to indicate a structure. This may be better: "Open boating trip to Llangollen - 11 July 2009"
+* Page names connot include any of the following characters:  # < > [ ] | { }
-Wikipedia has a more full page on the subject of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name page names]
+* It is best to avoid colons in page names. Colons are used to indicate wiki namespaces.
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 {{HelpGuidelines}}

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-General guidelines on '''page names'''.
+General [[Help:Guidelines|guidelines]] on '''page names'''.
 The advantage of the wiki is that it is not rigid - it allows anybody to create pages on any subject. However, the contents of the wiki are visible to everybody - not just members of the club. This means that we need some basic standards to allow the wiki to be as useful as possible.
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 Wikipedia has a more full page on the subject of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name page names]

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	The advantage of the wiki is that it is not rigid - it allows anybody to create pages on any subject. However, the contents of the wiki are visible to everybody - not just members of the club. This means that we need some basic standards to allow the wiki to be as useful as possible.		The advantage of the wiki is that it is not rigid - it allows anybody to create pages on any subject. However, the contents of the wiki are visible to everybody - not just members of the club. This means that we need some basic standards to allow the wiki to be as useful as possible.