Question

I was just wanting to know if there were any philosophies on Page naming. Like the "to do's and not to do's" when naming pages.

Environment

-- MichaelParker - 04 Mar 2008

Answer

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Here are the good & bad examples at WikiWord:

Good examples of WikiWords

• WikiWord
• GoodStyle
• VersionFiveDotThree
• ReleaseVersion5dot3
• AVeryLongWikiTopicNameIsAlsoPossible: wherever an uppercase or lowercase letter is allowed, a group of letters of the same case is allowed
• YearTwoThousand
• Nine2Five: Note that numbers are considered to be lowercase letters in WikiWords

Bad examples of WikiWords:

• Web: Name without the uppercase letter(s), lowercase letter(s), uppercase letter(s) sequence
• 5TWiki: Name beginning with a number
• Know-How: Name with dashes in between

Personally, I don't like those "Version" examples. I prefer ProductVersion5_3 even though I have to force the link else it's rendered like ProductVersion5_3.

-- SeanCMorgan - 05 Mar 2008

I like the "x" character for version numbers, such as TWiki04x02 or TWikiMarketingMeeting2008x02x25. It is visual.

You can turn off auto-linking altogether in the Main.TWikiPreferences (see also TWiki.TWikiPreferences). With this you need to use the double square bracket link rule. First char needs to be upper case, followed by alphanumeric characters and optional special characters dash (-) or underscore (_).

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Mar 2008