Welcome to the Virtual Education Wiki ~ Open Education Wiki
Naming
This page describes what we want to achieve, not what is currently achieved in all cases.
It is not a full description. The details of the naming scheme and the penumbra of alternates is really tedious unless you are a wiki editor - things like curly versus straight quotes, commas in names of Universities and ampersand usage.
Naming of countries
- The normal short name in English of a country is taken to be the name of the country page on the wiki.
- See for example Sweden, South Korea, Netherlands, etc.
- Any variants of that short name are redirected to the country page.
- See for example Korea, United States of America, The Netherlands, Holland.
- The official full name of the country is redirected to the country page.
- See for example Kingdom of Sweden, Republic of Turkey, etc
- The name(s) of the country (both short and official) in any of the official languages of the country are then redirected to the country page, including names in variant Latin and non-Latin scripts.
Naming of abbreviations
Standard abbrevations for organisations, like AOU for Arab Open University, redirect to the "official" full university name (usually as listed in the copyright/legal section on the institution web site) -
as do common alternative phrasings (e.g. using Sheffield University instead of University of Sheffield) and common misspellings.
Institutions whose legal name is not in English have their native language names added as linking entries.
Naming of individuals
Names of individuals are added in their "firstname surname" form, without titles (such as Professor, Dr, Mr, Mrs etc). Variants and common misspellings will redirect to the default name. If accents exist like for Grégory Lucas they will be added but with natural fallbacks such as Gregory Lucas.