[GNC-dev] Unwritten Wiki Conventions

[Derek Atkins]

No, the forward slash means it's a wiki subpage.  E.g. one could have 
Taxes/US, Taxes/UK, etc.  The wiki handles it just fine, and we already 
have examples of subpages.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On December 24, 2018 7:26:18 AM D via gnucash-devel 
<gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Frank,
>
> On December 24, 2018, at 12:19 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" 
> <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Rather than add another code to an obscure code, I think you should have 
> gone the opposite direction, and named this page something like "Compliance 
> with UK Tax Authorities". This is especially relevant, since the page 
> appears to approach the topic in this manner, and the only link to it is 
> the FAQ question about tax compliance for the UK.
>
> Would you please do that, since I am as yet unsure of wiki conventions in 
> this regard? Then no one will have to wonder what "PAS 76" is. (of course, 
> you could always have added an entry to the glossary-- oh, never mind, I 
> just did)
>
>>> 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?)
>
> I guess I wasn't clear; using a slash seems problematic in a wiki page 
> title since the forward slash is used in URLs. Won't that confuse browsers?
>
> David
>
>> 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
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