[vtk-developers] Wiki Naming Conventions

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi Bill,
This is a really good idea. it will dramatically improve the usability
of the site.

Andrew

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We need some consistent convention to name pages on the vtk wiki.
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK
>
> VTK, itk, cmake, paraview, cdash, ... all share the same wiki.
>
> Looking through a sample of these wikis you will see a variety of
> naming conventions. For example a page describing "My Stuff" might be
> called:
>
> 1) My_Stuff
>    Not a good convention, but there are lots of pages named liked this.
>
> 2) VTK:My_Stuff
>   This uses (misuses) the concept of namespace. Wikimedia namespaces
> are described here:
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_namespace
>   CDash uses this consistently
>
> 3) VTK_My_Stuff
>    itk uses this pretty consistently. CMake uses it frequently
> although it also uses 1, 2, and 4.
>
> 4) VTK/My_Stuff
>    Used occasionally in VTK. As well as 1,2 and 3.
>
> My main immediate concern is to have the Examples on the wiki conform
> to a single convention.
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK:Examples
>
> Note, the wiki has a rename (move) mechanism so that old link will not
> be broken.
>
> Bill
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