Dave Brewster wrote:
The default page title is its name. Is there a
way to change that? For
example, you might have a page named "VPNSetup", but then want the title
(i.e., the top heading) to be "How to Set up a VPN Network".
A page title *is* its name. This is one of the fundamental parts of what
makes a wiki a wiki -- simple consistent linking where the link is the
name is the title.
If you want something else, you probably need some other kind of tool
than a wiki.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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I believe the following is a case for a title that is different then the
page name. In the bird area of Wikipedia the page name for each bird is
the common name of the bird. Common names are different in various parts
of the world but they still refer to the same bird so there shouldn't be
separate pages for it. North Americans want to see Common Loon while in
the UK they want to see Great Northern Diver and not only in the title
but also in the content. And no, common names shouldn't be made
universal by making them correspond to the binomial (scientific) name as
there is great value in keeping them separate and meaningful to a local
user. This value is described in the "Common names" page in Wikipedia.
Currently this is treated by including some text like "This bird is also
known as the Common Loon." That does not make it very easy to use for
those in other parts of the world.