FamilySearch Wiki:Naming a Project: Difference between revisions

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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. Project pages had been created in multiple namespaces, and their titles employed various naming conventions. In order to make sense of projects in this wiki, we've created a movement to standardize how we name projects and which namespace we will put them in. Use the Discussion page to submit proposals.

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 is in the main namespace. It contains the word Wikiproject to show it is a project within this wiki.
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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Some examples that show just how bad it was on 8 April 2009:

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-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.
+Since at least 8 April 2009, project pages in FamilySearch Wiki have been too&nbsp;hard to find, even for wiki founders and project creators. Project pages had been created in multiple namespaces, and their titles employed various naming conventions. In order to make sense of projects in this wiki, we've created a movement to standardize how we name projects and which namespace we will put them in. Use the [[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Naming a Project|Discussion page]] to submit proposals.<br>&nbsp;
-This page apparently duplicates the topic in [[FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages|FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages]]. I'm&nbsp;going to blow away that page after redirecting the links that lead there. Its title is too wordy,&nbsp;so it may be con&nbsp;
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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.