Re: Second JS bulk upload

Yes, it’s the site convention that the camelCase for language elements. Feel free to file a bug (and I’d probably for for it! ;-) ). But, let’s not hold up the JS import for that.

I thought all pages created with a space in the URL automatically converted the space to underscore, so I wasn’t too worried about that. If not, it’s the MW convention, so let’s use underscore for spaces in the URLs.

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From: Renoir Boulanger <renoir@w3.org<mailto:renoir@w3.org>>
Date: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 10:20 AM
To: Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com<mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>>
Cc: WebPlatform Public List <public-webplatform@w3.org<mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: Second JS bulk upload
Resent-From: WebPlatform Public List <public-webplatform@w3.org<mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
Resent-Date: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 10:20 AM

Hi Jen,

I agree with you about spaces (a.k.a.  %20).

I’m sure Max already thought about what a space is in an URL :)

But the conversation is about the page name for internal reference. MediaWiki renames such name with an underscore. So spaces problem is already addressed.

As for the capitalization, we came to the same conclusion. But we are also documenting an API that has naming conventions and this is where some of us agreed to use it only for them.

Example:

   var a = new RegExp(‘foo’);

RegExp has a format, we agreed that the URL will respect that representation.

At the moment no content has been imported in the wiki.

Some of us should spend some time to see the latest import Max made. It is in the test wiki here: [1]

  [1]: http://docs.webplatform.org/test/javascript

Renoir
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On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com<mailto:jen@jensimmons.com>> wrote:

Why are we not just making everything lowercase in the URLs? That's what I would expect as a user.
Also, no spaces in any URL.

Instead of:
  javascript/JavaScript Reference
  javascript/Math/Math Constants
  javascript/Number/Number Constants
  javascript/RegExp/1 9 Properties

I would suggest this:
  javascript/javascript_reference
  javascript/math/math_constants
  javascript/number/number_constants
  javascript/reg_exp/1_9_properties

or:
  javascript/javascriptreference
  javascript/math/mathconstants
  javascript/number/numberconstants
  javascript/regexp/1-9properties

It's much easier to guess a URL if they are all consistent. I would not expect most users to be able to guess which words "should" be capitalized or not.

More importantly, a URL like this:
 javascript/operators/unsigned right shift assignment

gets quickly turned into:
 javascript/operators/unsigned%20right%20shift%20assignment

Yuk..
No spaces. Prevent %20.

Jen

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On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Max Polk <maxpolk@gmail.com<mailto:maxpolk@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Julee <julee@adobe.com<mailto:julee@adobe.com>> wrote:
Hi, Max & All:

We also have the convention that the URL should be lowercase, except for
the language elements, which should conform to the spec.

Need suggestions below.

Page renames per Julee:

  BEFORE --> AFTER
  javascript/Objects      javascript/objects
  javascript/Constants    javascript/constants
  javascript/Properties   javascript/properties
  javascript/Functions    javascript/functions
  javascript/Methods      javascript/methods
  javascript/Operators    javascript/operators
  javascript/Operators/*  javascript/operators/* (all subpages)

Not modified, unless someone has a better suggestion:

  javascript/JavaScript Reference      "JavaScript Reference" capitalized
  javascript/Math/Math Constants       "Math Constants" capitalized
  javascript/Number/Number Constants   (same)
  javascript/RegExp/1 9 Properties     "Properties" capitalized

Not modified, unless someone has a better suggestion.  The following are language elements that are ideas and are not named:

    javascript/Regular Expression        (note: different than Regex)
    javascript/operators/Addition Assignment
    javascript/operators/Addition
    javascript/operators/Assignment
    javascript/operators/Bitwise AND Assignment
    javascript/operators/Bitwise AND
    javascript/operators/Bitwise Left Shift
    javascript/operators/Bitwise NOT
    javascript/operators/Bitwise OR Assignment
    javascript/operators/Bitwise OR
    javascript/operators/Bitwise Right Shift
    javascript/operators/Bitwise XOR Assignment
    javascript/operators/Bitwise XOR
    javascript/operators/Comma
    javascript/operators/Comparison
    javascript/operators/Compound Assignment
    javascript/operators/Conditional Ternary
    javascript/operators/delete
    javascript/operators/Division Assignment
    javascript/operators/Division
    javascript/operators/in
    javascript/operators/Increment and Decrement
    javascript/operators/instanceof
    javascript/operators/Left Shift Assignment
    javascript/operators/Logical AND
    javascript/operators/Logical NOT
    javascript/operators/Logical OR
    javascript/operators/Modulus Assignment
    javascript/operators/Modulus
    javascript/operators/Multiplication Assignment
    javascript/operators/Multiplication
    javascript/operators/new
    javascript/operators/Right Shift Assignment
    javascript/operators/Subtraction Assignment
    javascript/operators/Subtraction
    javascript/operators/typeof
    javascript/operators/Unsigned Right Shift Assignment
    javascript/operators/Unsigned Right Shift
    javascript/operators/void

For all but the first above, the parent javascript/operators is fixed, but these are multiword page names, where the *lower*-case page names are JavaScript language elements (delete, in, new, typeof, void) and the upper-case page names are descriptions of the operator (to differentiate between language element and non-language element in the *reverse* sense of using case).  Whereas javascript/Math is a Math object, a javascript/operators/Division is really a "/" which is unusable as a page name, so a descriptive word "Division" is used instead.

Perhaps under operators we don't want to lower-case everything like this:

    javascript/operators/subtraction
    javascript/operators/typeof
    javascript/operators/unsigned right shift assignment
    javascript/operators/unsigned right shift
    javascript/operators/void

because the above strategy makes typeof and void (actual operators) indistinguishable from words used to describe the operators (subtraction and unsigned right shift).  Maybe that doesn't matter though since people can just read the page.