Forum:Sitename discussion

Hello, fellow Straw Hats! I'm just a random lurker who wants to get something off his chest. Let's just get started, shall we?

Sitename inconsistency
I'm not terribly smart, so something as minor as this has actually confused me for quite some time now. Just what is the name of this wiki? One Piece Wiki? One Piece Encyclopedia? "One Piece Wiki, the One Piece Encyclopedia"? Or perhaps "One Piece Encyclopedia, the One Piece Wiki"? I've seen all of those thrown around at some point; there doesn't seem to be a real consensus on what the name of this wiki is, from my narrow POV that is.
 * "One Piece Wiki" vs "One Piece Encyclopedia"

On one hand, the wiki wordmark/logo, as clear as day, says "One Piece Wiki", and that's typically what us viewers refer to the wiki as. On the other hand, the project namespace and wiki sitename are both under "One Piece Encyclopedia". Maybe I'm missing something, as I'm not an editor here, but those seem like two different names used inconsistently in all kinds of contexts. I reckon this inconsistency isn't much a problem, so much as it is a nitpick, but it was something I wanted to highlight, nonetheless.

I'd also like to note that, in my opinion, "One Piece Encyclopedia" is an awfully long name for a wiki or Project namespace.

Proposal
Look, I know I'm just a random fodder with no credibility here, and I realize what I'm about to say is a bit... wide in scope; i.e., this will likely be shot down in an instant and that's fine, but... #YOLO, and I truly feel this would be refreshing, and give the wiki more uniqueness/distinction and prestige in a way, if you get my drift. Let's just cut to the case.

This idea was spawned from the Project:Overview page. I'll be honest, I like endeavors like the one the Overview page alludes to -- the ultimate goal of this wiki, as stated on that page, seems to be providing fans with a reliable and informative repository of One Piece information, helping to raise a deserving series to the status of other great franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Muppets, etc. I can dig that.
 * New sitename

It got me thinking: What do some popular wikis pertaining to other highly acclaimed and popular franchises have in common? Most wikis follow the template of "x Wiki", where x is simply the name of the franchise a wiki pertains to. That's cool and all, and "One Piece Wiki" does have a sort of sting and simplicity to it that I like, but a good majority of the really notable wikis are so because of their distinctive names. For example:
 * DC Database/Marvel Database, the respective DC and Marvel encyclopedias
 * Bulbapedia, the Pokémon encyclopedia
 * Wookieepedia, the Star Wars encyclopedia
 * Memory Alpha, the Star Trek encyclopedia
 * Tolkien Gateway, the Lord of the Rings/J.R.R. Tolkien encyclopedia
 * The Vault, the Fallout encyclopedia
 * Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP), the Elder Scrolls encyclopedia
 * Combine OverWiki, the Half-Life encyclopedia
 * Wowpedia, the World of Warcraft encyclopedia

They are all big-name wikis pertaining to series as wide in scope as One Piece (... okay, save for maybe Combine OverWiki, but you gotta' admit "Combine OverWiki" is more original and unique than "Half-Life Wiki") and are easily distinguished throughout the interwebs by their distinctive names. As a random scrub who wants to see this wiki thrive, I feel the wiki would only benefit from a new name.

But these are all just the ramblings of a bored One Piece Wiki lurker. Hope I don't stir up too much trouble and maybe provided some kind of food for thought for you Straw Hats. 184.6.46.63 05:44, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

Discussion
I personally think we should ditch "One Piece Encyclopedia" and just stick with "One Piece Wiki", as that's what most site viewers refer to us as. As for the new sitename proposal, that's really just food for thought, as I know it'll likely be turned down, but I did come up with a few ideas: Just a few ideas. I'm sure someone has a much better, more original and fitting name idea than I do... though I am kind of feeling the first one. /sarcasm 184.6.46.63 07:36, August 10, 2016 (UTC)
 * Monkey D. Wiki
 * Grand Line Wiki
 * Gomupedia
 * Gomu Gomu Wiki
 * Oharapedia
 * Something using "Poneglyph", maybe?
 * Poneglypedia
 * Poneglyph Wiki

I think complex wikia names really beat the purpose. It's supposed to be an encyclopedia (or in the case of this site a wikipedia) which by definition is a site where knowledge and information about a certain subject are gathered. So you could consider it a more "formal" site and not a "casual" one. Renaming it to a weird name just to be "unique" is the least of the concerns of a wikia site since we need a name painfully obvious explaining in the site's title 100% of the content the reader will find in this site: "One Piece Wiki" ---> a wikipedia for one piece. Givin it a name like Chopperpedia for example would make no sense since the title gets to something really special and not something general. The fact that other sites made a mistake doesnt mean we need to do it as well just to be "unique". A wikia is not a fashion show, to compete for the most fabulous name :D Dinosel (talk) 07:41, August 10, 2016 (UTC)
 * Haha, you do make a sound point. This ain't no fashion show and "One Piece Wiki" does do a better job of being general. Can't really argue there. I wouldn't call the unique names of other highly popular, acclaimed wikis a 'mistake', though; they all seem to be doing very well in their spheres, in spite of their unique, more specific names. 184.6.46.63 07:54, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

Technically speaking, everything that doesn't contain "One Piece" is a bad choice in terms of SEO. All those big wikis you listed were founded long ago when people didn't really care/know about these things and now they are so big and well known that doesn't really matter anymore. You can argue that applies to us as well, but my point is that if you search "one piece" on google you will find us, while if we were called something like "Oharapedia" I wouldn't be so sure we would be in the same top results.

The current "sitename" is what  is, currently "", and it's what defines the   namespace (like One Piece Encyclopedia:Guidebook). So you can say "One Piece Encyclopedia" is the name of the wiki while "One Piece Wiki" it's what we are, meaning the common name. We could change it to simply "One Piece Wiki" for consistency, but I don't think makes too much of a difference.

How about One Piecepedia? Or Arlong Park Wiki like I tried to name it as such 10 years ago?

Joekido (talk) 09:42, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

Help:Sitename. -pedia naming is generally advised against. Personally I'll leave it as it is or at best change it to One Piece Wiki.

One Piece Encyclopedia or One Piece Wiki Meshack (talk) 10:00, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

"Arlong Park Wiki"... The day I officially resign from the Wiki business. Anyway, we're "The One Piece Wiki, the One Piece Encyclopedia". 12:17, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

We're forced to be One Piece Wiki because every single one of these sites is a wiki.

If we had to change - which we don't - then I suppose One Piece Wiki is fine to be the official name instead of One Piece Encyclopedia. But none of these nonsense names.

14:15, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

If "Kaidopedia" is out of the question then changing it all to just "One Piece Wiki" is fine with me. Kaido King of the Beasts (talk) 14:59, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

Then let's just call it One Piece Wiki then

Joekido (talk) 15:29, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

As supernova said, we don't really have to change tbh...

Well, it seems most of the other Straw Hats here would prefer that the sitename be changed to "One Piece Wiki". If -pedia naming really is advised against, from an SEO standpoint, then I can't help but think that this sitename inconsistency is at least having some adverse effect on the wiki's SEO ("One Piece Encyclopedia), even if only a minor one. From that POV, "One Piece Wiki" would be more stable, in a way, IMO, as that really is what most people think of when they think of this site; not "One Piece Encyclopedia", in my experience at least; short, general and sweet. ... Like Ryuzaki said, "One Piece Wiki, the One Piece encyclopedia" would be nice.

The new sitename thing was just a secondary proposal. I knew it would probably be shot down, because all of the alternative names I came up with were so awesome awful lol.

You gotta' admit, Monkey D. Wiki would be nice, though. (I kid, I kid; it's an awful name, I know) 184.6.46.63 16:42, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

So, we done here?

20:25, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

"If -pedia naming really is advised against" - you are misunderstanding, it's not "something that ends with -pedia" the problem, it's the keywords used. If you use "One Piecepedia" the name does not contain "One Piece", therefore bot crawler (google and such) don't understand the "pun". They see a site named something that talks about something else. "One Piece Encyclopedia" is fine. Basically any "One Piece something" should be fine, as far as I understand. If you want to further investigate, ask w:User:SEOkitten (a staff member).

Hmm, that makes sense. I still think the uniformity of being recognized solely as "One Piece Wiki" would only help with SEO, though. There would be no inconsistence and the name would be shorter (in regard to the project namespace and ). Plus, it seems quite apparent that even the users of the wiki refer to the it by what seems to be its secondary name of "One Piece Wiki" atm, rather than "One Piece Encyclopedia" (going by the user pages I've perused). Based on that, and the fact that the general consensus seems to be "One Piece Wiki", I think a change is quite warranted.

Even the Italian One Piece Wiki you edit at, among most other interwikis, goes by "One Piece Wiki Italia" rather than "One Piece Encyclopedia Italia". 184.6.46.63 20:52, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

http://onepiece.wikia.com K. Guess we're done here. SeaTerror (talk) 22:51, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

Doesn't seem like a sitename change'll take place. I figured as much. Yupperdoodles, we're done here. 184.6.46.63 23:13, August 10, 2016 (UTC)

That's because what you're saying now is already the site name. So of course no name change is going to happen. SeaTerror (talk) 00:42, August 11, 2016 (UTC)

"One Piece Encyclopedia" is the current sitename. "One Piece Wiki" is currently only the common name. I'm proposing that "One Piece Wiki" be both the sitename and common name. For example:
 * returns.

It should reasonably return the common name, "One Piece Wiki", in my opinion. "One Piece Encyclopedia" is a bit lengthy and isn't even the name the wiki is referred to as; that's merely what the wiki is, not the actual common name of the site -- in the same sense that Avatar Wiki is an Avatar encyclopedia; Nukapedia a Fallout encyclopedia; Wookieepedia a Star Wars encyclopedia, etc. This is the only wiki I know of that uses "encyclopedia" in place of "wiki" in its sitename. It's not a serious problem or anything; it's just divisive and weird, IMO. ... But that's just little ole me.

Tldr: The sitename of a wiki, in my experience, has always been its common name. This wiki is literally the only wiki I've come across with two different names.

But what do I know lmao? I'm just an anonymous scrub. 184.6.46.63 01:01, August 11, 2016 (UTC)

I just literally linked the URL. SeaTerror (talk) 01:14, August 11, 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that. The URL and sitename aren't quite the same thing, though. Whether the wiki's sitename remains One Piece Encyclopedia or changes to One Piece Wiki, Gol D. Wiki, Chopperpedia, Trafalgar LaWiki, or whatever, the URL will remain http://onepiece.wikia.com; it'll always remain distinct from the sitename.

A good example of this distinction is Wookieepedia (the sitename) being situated at http://starwars.wikia.com (the URL). They could change the sitename to Lightsaberpedia if they wanted, and the URL would remain the same. 184.6.46.63 01:36, August 11, 2016 (UTC)

If it ain't broke, don't fix it 05:58, August 11, 2016 (UTC)