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= Introduction = | == Introduction == | ||
Current naming practices for Germany yield long, cumbersome page titles and complicate searches. This is a proposal for renaming the German locality pages in order to improve the user experience.<br> | Current naming practices for Germany yield long, cumbersome page titles and complicate searches. This is a proposal for renaming the German locality pages in order to improve the user experience.<br> | ||
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A study of the German and English Wikipedia and the German GenWiki showed that each handles German locality names differently. | A study of the German and English Wikipedia and the German GenWiki showed that each handles German locality names differently. | ||
== Objectives == | == Objectives == | ||
The objectives of this project are to<br>1. Simplify the current locality structure<br>2. Establish uniform locality page naming guidelines for the area covered by the former German Empire<br> | The objectives of this project are to<br>1. Simplify the current locality structure<br>2. Establish uniform locality page naming guidelines for the area covered by the former German Empire<br> | ||
== Anticipated Benefits == | == Anticipated Benefits == | ||
*Page titles will be clearer and searches made easier less confusing | *Page titles will be clearer and searches made easier less confusing | ||
*Simplified locality names will work much better with the clickable maps that will soon be added to the country-, state-, and regional pages | *Simplified locality names will work much better with the clickable maps that will soon be added to the country-, state-, and regional pages | ||
*Page naming guidelines will enable users to distinguish between localities with the same name and find an article about a particular town more easily, | *Page naming guidelines will enable users to distinguish between localities with the same name and find an article about a particular town more easily, | ||
*Systematic naming practices will ensure that there is only one main page for each locality, with links from other cross-references to that page.<br> | *Systematic naming practices will ensure that there is only one main page for each locality, with links from other cross-references to that page.<br> | ||