Page Names

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Summary:

Finalizing the naming convention.

Page Names

Weregoose 18 Jul 2008 02:03

Note: I ask that only those with "very high" karma level carry this out, as they understand how to do so without breaking half the wiki. ;)

My suggestion is this: why force editors to type [[[hexcodes|hex codes]]], etc. when [[[hex codes]]] would suffice? If an item tends to be referenced verbosely rather than symbolically in the casual use, then let it be named according to the latter.

Following route:

asmlibs → assembly libraries
asmshells → assembly shells
basicbuilder → basic builder
binandhex → binary and hexadecimal
controlflow → controlling flow
custommenus → custom menus
custominput → custom input
lookuptables → look-up tables
metroidpi → metroid pi
oldnews → news archive
selfmodify → smc
textsprites → text sprites
thecalcs → the calculators
xroot → xth root
notequal → not equal to
lessthan → less than
lessthanequal → less than or equal to
greaterthanequal → great than or equal to
greaterthan → greater than
textcommands → text commands
83lgfont → large font
83smfont → small font
todolist → to-do list
whytibasic → why ti-basic
officexe → office xe
deltalist → delta list
userinput → user input
…

Secondly, let's start setting up some redirection pages. Things that people might type in but not get include:

matrix
cube-root
division
asterisk
plot
lower
upper
regeq
string
shell
library
…

Re: Page Names

burr 18 Jul 2008 17:43

I think the page name change is a good idea, although I would also add having the old page redirect to the new page. As far as coming up with redirection pages for common terms, I think that is a slippery slope — if we are going to provide a page for string, why not str, or str1, or str2, etc. as well?

Re: Page Names

DarkerLine 18 Jul 2008 18:03

I agree with most of those. delta-list doesn't strike me as being any better than deltalist, and there's no space or dash in the command name, so I'd prefer the latter (it's going to be used with a redirect anyway). Also, less-than-or-equal is shorter. Finally, BasicBuilder is one word, not two (though basic-builder might be a good redirect page).

Re: Page Names

burr 18 Jul 2008 20:44

So, who wants to come up with a complete list of page name changes?

Re: Page Names

jnesselr 18 Jul 2008 21:04

I think the guys who have posted on this page and have at least the highest karma.

(Meaning not me)

Re: Page Names

burr 18 Jul 2008 21:35

I tried out the page name change with user input, making the original userinput a redirect. If you guys want to start renaming the pages as well, use this module code:

[[module Redirect destination="http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/redirect-page-here"]]

Also note, that when clicking on the rename option in the toolbar, there is a show dependencies collapsible box. If you open that up, you will see all of the pages that have a link to that page. When renaming the page you should go ahead and check all of those boxes.

Last edited on 18 Jul 2008 22:09 by burr Show more

Re: Page Names

burr 19 Jul 2008 14:50

Because of how much work is involved, it is easier to simply have the new page be a redirect back to the old page; this eliminates all of the messing around with changing existing links.

Re: Page Names

DarkerLine 19 Jul 2008 15:21

It would still be best if the actual page content was at the easily-referenced address. For one, it's more aesthetically pleasing to see words separated in the url; also, it's good practice to have other pages link to the real page and not to a redirect. And it's not that much more work.

Edit: I put a list of all pages with their "unix names" at sandbox:pages to see which need changing easily.

Last edited on 19 Jul 2008 15:32 by DarkerLine Show more

Re: Page Names

burr 19 Jul 2008 15:30

It is when you are lazy :D

Re: Page Names

DarkerLine 19 Jul 2008 15:34

One more thing that would be nice is to tag all redirect pages with "redirect" — this would make it easy to find them later.

Re: Page Names

burr 19 Jul 2008 16:03

In order to actually stay on the redirected page, you need to put noredirect/true after the URL:

http://your-wiki.wikidot.com/redirect-page-here/noredirect/true

Re: Page Names

DarkerLine 19 Jul 2008 16:14

Okay. Now sandbox:pages only has the pages not tagged with "redirect". sandbox:redirect will have all the pages tagged with redirect as soon as there are any, with a link to the page without redirecting.

Re: Page Names

burr 19 Jul 2008 16:39

Usingyourcalc is the first page :D