Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] Removing "Gentoo [Linux]" from Wiki project names

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:02 PM Patrick McLean <chutzpah@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:50:38 -0700
> Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > It should be pretty obvious that all of these are part of Gentoo,
> > since they're projects on wiki.gentoo.org :)
> >
>
> I suspect it enhances Googability of those pages, if you search for
> "gentoo blah" it will make that page much more likely to show up.

I considered that, but "gentoo bsd", "gentoo elections", "gentoo
crypto" all show the respective project pages very highly in the
search results, even without "Gentoo [Linux]" in their names.

Also, even for projects with Gentoo in the name I'm not sure that it
helps. For instance if I google "gentoo alpha" I get the appropriate
project page as the second result (after the handbook link), but the
title of the page is "Project:Alpha - Gentoo Wiki" and not the name of
the project ("Gentoo Linux Alpha Development") and that name text
doesn't show up as any of the abbreviated search results. I don't
think the name is used for much except for the top of the box on the
right side of the project page and on user pages.