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General [[Help:Guidelines|guidelines]] on '''page names'''.
 
General [[Help:Guidelines|guidelines]] on '''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.
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* 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".
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* Page names can be quite long - up to 255 characters - so they need not be abreviated.
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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.
 
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Part of this is to adopt a common style of [[Help:Page structure|page structure]]
 
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Part of this is to adopt a reasonable page name convention.
 
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* Avoid page names like "Trip to Wales", but make the page name quite specific - something like "Open boating trip to Llangollen 11 July 2009".
 
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* Page names can be quite long - up to 255 characters - so they need not be single words.
 
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* Page names may includes spaces. These will generate URLs with underscores, but the spaces will be displayed.
 
* Page names may includes spaces. These will generate URLs with underscores, but the spaces will be displayed.
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* Page names may include dashes to indicate a structure. This may be better: "Open boating trip to Llangollen - 11 July 2009"
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* Page names may include dashes or colons to indicate a structure. This may be better: "Open boating trip to Llangollen - 11 July 2009"
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* Page names connot include any of the following characters:  # < > [ ] | { }
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* It is best to avoid colons in page names. Colons are used to indicate wiki namespaces.
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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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* It is best to avoid % + and ? in page names. They are allowed, but do cause problems in specific cases.
  
 
==More==
 
==More==
  
 
{{HelpGuidelines}}
 
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions Wikipedia's policy on how to name pages
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Article_titles Section in Wikipedia's Manual of Style
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_name Technical information about page names

Latest revision as of 10:28, 24 May 2009

General guidelines on page names.

  • 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 abreviated.
  • Page names may includes spaces. These will generate URLs with underscores, but the spaces will be displayed.
  • 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: # < > [ ] | { }
  • It is best to avoid colons in page names. Colons are used to indicate wiki namespaces.
  • It is best to avoid % + and ? in page names. They are allowed, but do cause problems in specific cases.

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