Help:Name for the wiki

The name for the wiki differs from the title for the wiki in that the name is what will be used to determine the default url. For instance, the "education" Wikia is accessible as http://education.wikia.com/



Choosing a good name
Choose a name which will attract people to your wiki and explain to them what the wiki is about. A clear wiki name will also help your project to rank higher in search engines if it matches the keywords people are likely to use in searching.

The name can contain letters and numbers, but not spaces or punctuation. It cannot be the same as a language code. See Help:Languages for a list of these. For example, "en" is reserved to mean an English language Wikia, and cannot be used as the name for your wiki.

The name should be generic so that people can guess the location of your wiki. For example, people might guess the URL of music.wikia.com if they were looking for a wiki about music. Real words are therefore preferable to made up terms such as wikimusic or mymusicwiki.

The name should be short and easy to spell to avoid people typing the wrong URL when trying to find your wiki. It will be rendered in all lower case in the subdomain name, so avoid names that utilize CamelCase for clarity, eg HawaiiIsland would become hawaiiisland.wikia.com.



Using wiki names in interwiki links
The name for the wiki is also used for interwiki links. For example, if the name is "Creatures", an interwiki link such as wikia:c:creatures:Page title would link from any wiki on Wikia to the Creatures wiki.

See also Help:Domain name.

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