Name for the wiki

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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 Wikicity is accessible as http://education.wikicities.com/

The name should be generic so that people can guess the location of your wiki. For example, if people might guess an URL of music.wikicities.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.

Choose a name which will attract people to your wiki and explain to them what the wiki is about.

For convenience in typing the URL and to avoid complications, the name should only contain letters and numbers.

The name can not be the same as a language code. See supported languages for a list of these. For example, "en" is reserved to mean an English language Wikicity, and can not be used as the name for your wiki.

Interwiki links
The name for the wiki is often also used for interwiki links. For example, if the name is "Creatures", an interwiki link such as Creatures:Page title would link from any wiki on Wikicities to the Creatures wiki.

Note however that the name used in the interwiki link is not always exactly the same as the first part of the URL after " http:// ", e.g. filmwiki: vs. http://film.wikicities.com (film:a does not work).

See also domain name.