Naming Conventions

: For more on word choice, subdivision etc. of headings, see ??? .

“Objects” can be wiki pages and namespaces, images, media and other files.

Avoid the spaces and use hyphens. You should also not use underscores. Stick to the lower case Latin letters from “a” to “z” and the digits “0” to “9”.

Use a “truncated” form of the page title resp. heading as page name. Example:

introduction-to-service-portfolio-management for An Introduction to Service Portfolio Management.

It can be useful to pull a keyword to the front. For example, if there are several wiki pages with articles on the topic “portfolio management” (= keyword). Example:

service-portfolio-management-introduction instead of introduction-to-service-portfolio-management. This is even shorter and still easy to understand.

Another page title Practical Implementation of a Service Portfolio Management Approach could be truncated to:

service-portfolio-management-practical-implementation.

This even goes a little further by omitting the “approach”. Nevertheless, you can see from the page name what it is all about. Of course, it is the author's decision whether an omission is still OK or too distorting.

Truncated in this way, the advantage of such a shortening would be, that the two pages would appear directly below each other in a list with alphabetically ordered page names:

• service-portfolio-management-introduction
• service-portfolio-management-practical-implementation

Each page inside this namespace contains the full description of one single ZenDi service, based on the respective namespace's template.

Additional naming recommendations apply to these service description pages:

A good choice for the leading keyword of an infrastructure service or support service is often the system, product or facility to which the service relates. Examples:

• en:services:catalogue:moodle-managed-hosting
• en:services:catalogue:zoom-managed-hosting

• en:services:catalogue:moodle-support-internal
• en:services:catalogue:zoom-support-internal
• en:services:catalogue:moodle-support-managed
• en:services:catalogue:zoom-support-managed