I am suggesting that all of the usergroups' (primary) wikis be renamed to be consistent with the formula groupname wiki. This will make it much easier for users to link to wikis, as the names will be completely predictable.

The wikis which would be renamed are:

OldNew
SDC WikiSiteDocClan wiki
gods' wikigods wiki
editors' wikijanitors wiki
pollsters' wikipollsters wiki
Cabalists' Wikicabal wiki
QandAEditors' wikiQandAEditors wiki
Pedagogues Wikipedagogues wiki (no change, other than in case, which isn't signifcant)
pmdev wikipmdev wiki (no change)

There are a few places where links might have to be updated, e.g. in the various nodelets, and probably a few places in the site doc. Other than that, would such changes have any impact which would make doing so a less than good idea?

Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.
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Re: RFC: Rename all group wikis to the form "(GroupName) wiki"
by tye (Sage) on May 05, 2009 at 18:36 UTC

    What about links in nodes? Or a person's Free Nodelet? Or browser bookmarks? Or ...

    Granted, these aren't public destinations, so that helps reduce the problem.

    It would be less thrash to rename the few that don't already follow the majority pattern: pmdev's wiki, Pedagogues' Wiki, SiteDocClan's wiki.

    Then there are the nodelets...

    - tye        

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      It would be less thrash to rename the few that don't already follow the majority pattern

      True; but... Ugh?

      But while that scheme would be somewhat easy for humans to predict, it would be a bit more involved for a program to do — which was my real reason for wanting the wikis renamed.

      Then there are the nodelets

      I don't think those are that important, since nobody (with the exception of the odd pmdev) links to nodelets.

      So here's my thinking. I was going to make a set of faqstrings with the desired titles which then link to the wikis under their current names. That way, if someone thought that SiteDocClan wiki should DTRT, then at least they'll get a working link, at the cost to the user of one additional click.

      But then I thought — why not rename the wikis as described above, and make a set of faqstrings with the old names which then link to the wikis under their new names? That way, old links still work, at the cost of one additional click.

      Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.
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        Ugh?

        I suspect that the reason that this scheme is the most common is not due to everybody sharing your dislike for it.

        it would be a bit more involved for a program to do

        You understate the problem; rather than a bit more complicated, it would likely be nearly a dozen bytes more complicated.

        I personally prefer titles that read well. I don't believe that I was the only one following that scheme. The plural cases would read particularly awkwardly ("gods wiki", "janitors wiki", ...).

        - tye        

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Re: RFC: Rename all group wikis to the form "(GroupName) wiki"
by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 04, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

    I have gone ahead and done the 'poit' myself. :-)

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Re: RFC: Rename all group wikis to the form "(GroupName) wiki"
by ambrus (Abbot) on May 06, 2009 at 14:38 UTC

    Wasn't one of them renamed in the other way recently, that is, to possessive?

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      Not that I know of. But I'm reminded of Nodelet Container - (patch), which removed any apostrophes from nodelet names when used as an HTML element id value.

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