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Since at least 8 April 2009, project pages in FamilySearch Wiki have been too hard to find, even for wiki founders and project creators. At that time, project pages appeared in multiple namespaces and their titles employed various naming conventions. Thus we seek to standardize how we name projects and which namespace we put them in. Use the [[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Naming a Project|Talk page]] to submit proposals.


As of 8 April 2009, project pages in FamilySearch Wiki were hard to find, even for wiki founders and project creators. In order to make sense of projects in this wiki, it might help to standardize how we name projects and which namespace we will put them in. Use the Discussion page to submit proposals.
[[Category:WikiProject Help Topics]]
 
This page apparently duplicates the topic in [[FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages|FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages]]. I'm going to blow away that page after redirecting the links that lead there. Its title is too wordy, so it may be con 
 
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In December 2009 it was discovered that project pages&nbsp;on FamilySearch Wiki had been created&nbsp;in multiple namespaces, and their titles employed various naming conventions:
 
*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Census|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Census]] is in the FamilySearch Wiki namespace. Its title contains the word ''Wikiproject'' to show it is a project within this wiki.
*[[Wikiproject US Census|Wikiproject US Census]]&nbsp;is in the main namespace. It contains the word ''Wikiproject'' to show it is a project within this wiki.
*[[FamilySearch Wikiproject: Danish Jurisdictions|FamilySearch Wikiproject: Danish Jurisdictions]] is in the main namespace; however, the use of the colon in the title and the words included before the colon may lead some users to believe that a ''FamilySearch Wikiproject'' namespace exists, when in fact there is no such namespace on the wiki.
 
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=== Examples showing divergence  ===
 
Some examples that show just how bad it was on 8 April 2009:
 
#[[Maryland Barn Raising Tasks|Maryland Barn Raising Tasks]]
#[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki]]&nbsp;
#[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives]]
#[[Task to Copy Research Guidance and Help Content|Task to Copy Research Guidance and Help Content]]
#[[FamilySearch Wikiproject: Danish Articles Needing Revision|FamilySearch Wikiproject: Danish Articles Needing Revision]]
 
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Latest revision as of 16:00, 30 October 2023

Since at least 8 April 2009, project pages in FamilySearch Wiki have been too hard to find, even for wiki founders and project creators. At that time, project pages appeared in multiple namespaces and their titles employed various naming conventions. Thus we seek to standardize how we name projects and which namespace we put them in. Use the Talk page to submit proposals.