[pmwiki-users] Question - dot as page name

Nicolas Pelletier nicolas.pelletier at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 17:41:50 CST 2006


Thanks a lot.

The arguments are strong to use DotNet and I'll do the switch shortly.

nick

On 12/20/06, Crisses <crisses at kinhost.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:58, Nicolas Pelletier wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is there a way to use a dot in a page name? Group Name?
> >>
> >> In our case, we would like to have a group named .Net with some
> >> pages also
> >> containing dots (like ".Net Problems" etc).
> >>
> >> Is it possible and how can it be done?
> >
> > I don't know for sure, but would assume probably not.  Why don't
> > you just
> > follow convention and use "DotNet"?  That is used rather widely,
> > and is
> > easier to search on.  A google query for "dotnet" returns "about" 12.3
> > million pages.  A query for ".net" returns 1.62 billion pages, but
> > a lot of
> > those pages have nothing to do with programming, since punctuation
> > isn't a
> > part of google searches.
>
> Also, your TECHNICAL page name may be Main.DotNet but that doesn't
> stop you from using
> (:title .Net Problems:)
> which will change the title in the window, and for any bookmarks
> people make for the page, etc.
>
> However, it will change your search engine rankings, as has been
> pointed out.  If you stick with "DotNet" it's searchable.  If you use
> ".Net" it resolves to "net" even when you use quotes.... not as
> useful in the greater scheme of things :)
>
> Crisses
>
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