[Talk-GB] Removing "WikiProject" prefix

[dcapillae]

Hi, Jez.

Thank you for commenting.

I don't know if there's a convention about this. It seems that every 
community uses one scheme or another according to their own preferences. 
Some countries use "United Kingdom Railways" and others "United 
Kingdom/Railways". I don't have preferences for one or the other.

In the pages of the US mapping project I used the scheme "United 
States/Railways", "United States/Boundaries", etc. They use two schemes, 
both with "/" and without "/". For example, there are pages like "United 
States/Projects" and others like "United States roads tagging" or 
"United States admin level". All the pages of the United States mapping 
project are in the category "Category:United States", so they are easy 
to find even if they have different names.

I would only remove the prefix "WikiProject" from the pages related to 
the UK mapping project. I usually use subpages to keep all the pages 
related to the mapping project in the same page tree. However, I 
understand that other solutions are also possible.

If your community have a preference, I'll do what you prefer.


El 3/8/19 a las 17:13, Jez Nicholson escribió:

> 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 
> <mailto: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 pagesWikiProject 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 <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org>
>
>
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>     *From:* dcapillae <dcapillae at gmail.com <mailto:dcapillae at gmail.com>>
>     *Sent:* 03 August 2019 12:44
>     *To:* talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
>     <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <mailto: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
>
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