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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. | ||
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Wikipedia has a more full page on the subject of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name page names] | Wikipedia has a more full page on the subject of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name page names] | ||
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Revision as of 21:08, 16 May 2009
General 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.
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 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 page names