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Guidelines on how to format filenames for the wiki.
General Practices for File Naming
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- Use only standard ASCII alphanumeric characters in file and directory names.
- Lowercase only.
- No special characters, such as
?,%,#,/,|,:,;,•. - Use
-hyphens-instead of spaces to separate words. These are recognized by search engines as a substitute for spaces.- Do not use
_underscores_for spaces. These are generally not recognized by search engines so can negatively affect SEO.1
- Do not use
Naming Images and Videos
In addition to following general file naming practices, image filenames should be short and descriptive of the content of the image.
For example, my-new-black-kitten.jpg is better than IMG00023.JPG for a picture of a black kitten. Descriptive image filenames give search engines clues as to the subject matter of an image. This is supplementary to the addition of descriptive alt-text to images, which is the most important attribute for providing metadata about images for search engines.2
Naming Zip FIles
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“Say. That’s an interesting Dwemer piece you have there. What can you tell me about it?
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Footnotes
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Google Developer Documentation Style Guide, ‘Filenames and File Types’, accessed 2024-07-09 ↩
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Google Search Central, ‘Google image SEO best practices’, accessed 2024-07-09 ↩