[Talk-GB] Removing "WikiProject" prefix

[Jez Nicholson]

Good timing.

I've been doing a lot of work recently to locate pages that the United
Kingdom community are responsible for. The next step is renaming, and I/we
would love to lose the words 'WikiProject'.

As to naming pages, I was stuck on 'United Kingdom/Railways" Vs "United
Kingdom Railways" Vs "Railways in the United Kingdom".

Is the wiki going with "United Kingdom xyz", that is no '/' prefix and
subject last?

- Jez

On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, 13:24 Andrew Hain, <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> The page “WikiProject United Kingdom” had the prefix removed for a while
> in the past but it was changed back. I would be happy to see your project
> continue here.
>
> The pages WikiProject Power networks/Great BritainWikiProject Power
> networks/United Kingdom
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Power_networks/United_Kingdom>
> are part of an international naming system.
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> WikiProject Solent - OpenStreetMap Wiki
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Solent>
> Description. The "Solent" area of Central Southern England isn't a county
> as such, but is arguably worth having its own WikiProject as it is one of
> the better mapped areas in the UK outside of the large cities.
> wiki.openstreetmap.org
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* dcapillae <dcapillae at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 03 August 2019 12:44
> *To:* talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Removing "WikiProject" prefix
>
> Hi,
>
> I am Daniel, from Spain. I would like to change the name of the wiki
> pages related to the United Kingdom mapping project to remove the
> "Wikiproject" prefix according to the pages name conventions [1].
>
> The name of the pages related to the United Kingdom mapping project
> would be "United Kingdom" (name of place) instead of "Wikiproject United
> Kingdom", as recommended by the wiki conventions. It is a change that I
> have already made in United States [2], Canada [3], Spain [4], Australia
> [5], New Zealand [6], South Africa [7], and all Spanish-speaking
> countries [8] on the Wiki. The pages of Israel, Denmark and Philippines
> have also been renamed.
>
> Many pages of the UK mapping project have already been renamed. Only a
> few remain. I could make the necessary changes. All pages with
> "WikiProject" prefix will be redirected automatically. There will be no
> broken links in any case.  I'll make sure everything works correctly,
> just like now.
>
> Do you like the idea? There was already a discussion in the wiki about
> this subject [9].
>
> Thank you for you attention! Greetings from Spain.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki_organisation#Pages_naming_convention
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States
> [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada
> [4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Spain
> [5] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australia
> [6] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_Zealand
> [7] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_Africa
> [8]
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Spanish_speaking_countries
> [9] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_United_Kingdom
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/attachments/20190803/847f45bd/attachment.html>