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Editing

Creating and editing pearls

Please see form:oyster to create and edit a pearl and its properties.

Singular page name and plural redirect

Often you need both the singular and plural version of a page. For example, if you have user story, you will probably also need user stories at some point in time. Therefore:

1. write the original page in singular form; and
2. create a redirect to the original page for the plural form.

Special characters

Create a redirect without the special character for page names that use special characters like ‘?’ or ‘!’. For example, anyone else redirects to anyone else? so that the permalink http://pearllanguage.org/anyone_else takes you to anyone else?.

Use a right single quotation mark

Use a right single quotation mark “’” in page names when appropriate. That is, do not use a straight quote “'”. For example, don’t just do something, stand there!.

Categories

You want pretty URLs because URLs are part of the user experience. Therefore

1. Create a specific page for key concepts and topics so they are accessible by:

   http://pearllanguage.org/topic

2. Have the topic page redirect to the category page:

   #REDIRECT [[category:topic]]

3. Put all the meat on the category page.