[GNC-dev] Unwritten Wiki Conventions

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

David,

thanks for your question. Because it affects unwritten historical
conventions, I cc the list.

https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/Wiki_Conventions

Am 23.12.18 um 08:04 schrieb David T.:
> Frank,
> I just decided to look into this change to the wiki you made a couple of weeks ago. 
> It appears that you renamed the "PAS 76" page to "GB/PAS_76"
> I can't see why you did this. Is there more than one "PAS 76" that might confuse gnucash users?

Probably not users, but wiki maintainers:
Its original name was Pas_76 and several times, I opened it with the
intention "Strange name, can we delete it?".
So I changed it to uppercase letters to denote, it is the abbreviation
of a regulation (form, law, ...). Further I prefixed it with GB because
it only concerns users in GB.

> That would, in my opinion, have been the only reason to make this change. Given that the only link to this page was the one from the FAQ, this change seems really fussy. 
> And is it wise to use a forward slash in a wiki page name? That just seems destined for trouble. 

The slash divides a prefix from the intrinsic page name. This way you
can have a main page with subpages. A technical good example of this
technic was the draft of the guide with a template, common index, ...

In general in more encyclopedic wikis its use is disregarded (you need
several tools for both, coding and documenting. Which should become the
main page?)

There is one exception in our wiki:
Language and region specific pages got prefixed with the language code
(De, Es, Pt ...) or region code (GB, NO ...). Ideally they should also
have a respective category tag.
The reason is historical: When we imported the first enlish and german
pages from linixwiki.de, nobody of us knew about mediawikis language
extensions.
When Derek and I have some spare time, we will move languages in
specific domains.

> David

HTH
Frank