I've tried to work it out but I'm still a bit confused, so I've got a couple of questions that maybe you can help me with.
The search engine on the wikipedia rejects punctuation, so does that mean that for best search results we should leave it out of entry titles? eg. There was no entry for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' until I made one, but there was an entry already there for 'Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone' without the [correct] apostrophe. Which one should be the main article and which one should be the redirect?
If I want to make a sub-page for a topic, say 'Possums', what's the protocol for naming it? I see a lot of entries have used backslashes, but I read that the slashes don't mean anything anymore. I'm confused! Just say I wanted to make subpages on possum dietary requirements, how to keep possums as pets, and how possums breed. [not that I know anything about possums, but it's an example that came to mind.]
And, lastly, if I wanted to break my user: page up into subpages with projects I'd like to do on one page and projects I've already started on another, what should I call it? I'm getting confused. I looked at the FAQ and help pages but I didn't really understand their explanation... I got lost at about the point where I was told to use brackets to make categories more logical.
And about those brackets, which subject header would be more correct - lime, fruit lime/fruit or lime (fruit). I've seen entry titles using all three formats.
Thanks in advance!
Karen
I think someone more in tune with the technical situation should answer by the punctuation...
If I want to make a sub-page for a topic, say 'Possums', what's the protocol for naming it? I see a lot of entries have used backslashes, but I read that the slashes don't mean anything anymore. I'm confused! Just say I wanted to make subpages on possum dietary requirements, how to keep possums as pets, and how possums breed. [not that I know anything about possums, but it's an example that came to mind.]
If you want to write about [[possum dietary requirements]], [[possums as pets]], or [[possum breeding]], then you should. Of, if you're from Alabama like me, you can write about [[possum for dinner]]. And you'll probably also want to go to the main [[possum]] page and add links to these pages.
And, lastly, if I wanted to break my user: page up into subpages with projects I'd like to do on one page and projects I've already started on another, what should I call it? I'm getting confused. I looked at the FAQ and help pages but I didn't really understand their explanation... I got lost at about the point where I was told to use brackets to make categories more logical.
I'm a little confused about this one, myself.
And about those brackets, which subject header would be more correct - lime, fruit lime/fruit or lime (fruit). I've seen entry titles using all three formats.
I think that the parenthesis form is the consensus favorite.
--Jimbo
On mer, 2002-04-10 at 16:56, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
The search engine on the wikipedia rejects punctuation, so does that mean that for best search results we should leave it out of entry titles?
eg. There was no entry for 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' until I made one, but there was an entry already there for 'Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone' without the [correct] apostrophe. Which one should be the main article and which one should be the redirect?
You should consider that a temporary bug in the search engine; hopefully the articles will remain long after the bugs are gone... But punctuationless redirects won't hurt anything, and can help with the buggy search in the meantime.
Personally, I would prefer the "most correct" title to be attached to the actual article; that generally means full names, apostrophes, hypens, and diacritics (so far as Latin-1 allows). Others may disagree, though, particularly on diacritics.
As far as the subpage questions, Jimbo said pretty much what I was going to say.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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