Dev: Development standards

Wiki development standards

Naming

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Pages

For	As of date	Standard
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.
Version & timestamp	Aug 21	Every wiki page of any stripe should have in the upper-right corner the date, time, mobile version, and desktop version. The Stamp template should be used for this. It has these four values as arguments. This is manually updated, so caution should be used to keep it updated every time it changes.

Headings

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Tables

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Templates

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Work migration

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Authoring

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Review

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Staging

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Releasing from Staging to the wiki

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Administration

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	Aug 21	Page names should begin with the category of the page followed by a colon followed by a space, unless that category is Main, in which case, it is omitted. The remainder of the name should be the natural name of the page.
Category names	Aug 21	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Wiki development guidelines

Naming

For	As of date	Guideline
Page names	2020 Aug 21	Page names should be as indicative as possible of the function being described.
Category names	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Wiki development conventions

Naming

For	As of date	Standard
Page names	2020 Aug 21	Page names are not constrained in any way beyond the standards & guidelines.
Category names	Proposed category names will be reviewed by the team for approval. They should be a single word or words containing no spaces.

Wiki development glossary

Standard terminology in Memento wiki development

Term	Definition	Usage
Development	A generic term for the construction or assembly of items, often within a specific context
Development environment	A set of procedures & tools that work together to help development teams accomplish their joint mission of managing phases^ including development, testing and/or review, acceptance by users (if appropriate), and deployment into a production environment along with the process of migrating^ the software or other items being developed from phase to phase. (Not a sentence.)
Development phase	A phase of the development process
Internal references	The symbol ^ is used to refer to another term, phrase, or sentence within the current page.	For example: API^
Work migration	The movement of software, Web pages, or other items being developed from one phase to the next

Abbreviations & acronyms

Abbreviation/Acronym	Short for term	Definition
API	Application Programming Interface
DevEnv	Development Environment	The set of development wiki pages that support development of the wiki, used by authors & administrators
DOM	Document Object Model
JS	JavaScript	An object-based scripting language developed originally for the purpose of programming actions within a Web browser rather than within a Web server. It consists of general scripting functions and a special set of functions referred to as the DOM^, or Document Object Model^.
MJ	Memento JavaScript	The subset of the JavaScript scripting language that is supported by Memento to specify the things to be done by Memento upon certain specific events
MJL	The Memento JavaScript Library	The JavaScript^ library that provides an API^ to the Rhino JavaScript engine within Memento that implements a subset of JavaScript that omits the DOM.
MW	The Memento Wiki