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+====== Page Names ======
+The pagename is the component of the URL that specifies the page. For example, the URL of the page you are currently reading is ''%%https://www.dokuwiki.org/pagename%%'', and its page name is ''pagename''.
+===== Naming Conventions =====
+[[Page]] names in [[DokuWiki]] are converted to lowercase automatically. Allowed characters are letters, digits and, within names ((i.e. you cannot start or end names with them, resp. they will be eliminated at start or end of names)), the "special characters" dot ''.'', hyphen ''-'' and underscore ''_''. All other special characters (i.e. other than letters and digits -- whitespace, plus, slash, percent, etc.) are converted to underscores ((or whatever is configured in the [[config:sepchar|sepchar setting]])) . Colons ('':'') are used to identify [[namespaces]] ((This can be changed to forward slashes to more naturally mirror your data filesystem hierarchy: [[config:useslash]] )).
+When the [[config:deaccent|deaccent]] config option is enabled (on by default) local and accented characters are converted to their descriptive equivalents (''ü'' becomes ''ue'') or deaccented versions (''á'' becomes ''a'').
+An implicit constraint on pagename lengths is set by [[backlinks]] (pagenames need to have 3 chars at least to be considered in backlinks).
+Most templates, including the default, present somewhere the full pagename and the [[namespaces|namespaces]] in its path. The 'dokuwiki' template places it in the tab on the top right corner of the page. For example this page's name is ''pagename''.
+When linking to other Wikis using [[InterWiki]] links the name restrictions of these Wikis apply.
+Even when [[wp>CamelCase]] (aka. WikiWord) is enabled by the [[config:camelcase|CamelCase config]] the pagenames will remain lowercase.
+**Note:** All restrictions given here for pagenames do apply to media files as well!
+===== Pagenames and Namespaces =====
+You may picture namespaces as directories and pagenames as files inside them.
+Therefore the ''a:b:c'' pagename can be pictured as:
+<file>
+   root namespace (always present)
+     │
+     └── 'a' namespace
+          │
+          └── 'b' namespace
+               │
+               └── 'c' pagename
+</file>
+Note that you can have a pagename and a namespace with the same name, at the same time, within any namespace. Back to the above example, the ''a:b'' pagename can be pictured as:
+<file>
+   root namespace (always present)
+     │
+     └── 'a' namespace
+          │
+          └── 'b' pagename (not to be confused with the 'b' namespace above)
+</file>
+This doesn't lead to conflicts, because DokuWiki treats the final token (the one after the last colon) as the name of the [[page]] itself, while all other tokens are namespaces.
+  * In ''a:b:c'', ''a'' and ''b'' are namespaces while ''c'' is a page.
+  * In ''a:b'', ''a'' is interpreted as a namespace and ''b'' as a page.
+See [[namespaces]] for more details.
+===== Hacking the Core for mixed case names =====
+Some people like to hack the DokuWiki core to be able to use mixed case names. This is not recommended and not officially supported and might break DokuWiki functionality in non-obvious ways.
+You can hack the code and by commenting out one line in the wiki/inc/pageutils.php about line 109, you will be able to use files with Names_Like_This if you so choose.
+Look for this code and comment it out.
+<code php>
+$id = utf8_strtolower($id);
+</code>
+:!: This hack, used by me a few years and announced to the User-Forum, seems not to work with Anteater. \\
+:?: Any idea, to have it there too?
+Also see [[https://forum.dokuwiki.org/d/5417|this thread]].