Consider renaming to "spenserblack/publish-wiki-action"

[jcbhmr]

I think this is a relatively cosmetic-level change. There's 301 redirects, so nothing would change for folks still using spenserblack/actions-wiki

This is largely motivated by branding, and SEO and all those good advertising things. And just good naming conventions in general. To quote myself

A lot of the names are honestly kind of vague. something like "actions/publish-wiki" is short and punchy, but since we aren't in the https://github.com/actions org, the next best thing is name/actions-publish-wiki maybe? Or publish-wiki-action? I'm basing this naming convention on the existing actions/* projects like "actions/deploy-pages" and "actions/configure-pages" and "actions/checkout". See https://github.com/jcbhmr/publish-wiki-action/issues/12 for more.

My personal favorite name would probably be "name/publish-wiki-action".

— https://github.com/jcbhmr/publish-wiki-action/issues/8#issuecomment-1461120686

publish-wiki-action

or if possible

some-actions-org/publish-wiki

https://github.com/jcbhmr/publish-wiki-action-OLD/issues/12

This is an opinionated suggestion that you can close and I'll accept that. This is just a suggestion of my own thoughts on the naming stuff.

[spenserblack]

🤔 I think I might prefer to keep the name short. I understand that actions-wiki is a bit vague and doesn't have a verb like "publish", but given how wordy the action is with my full name already in the prefix, I'd like to reduce those few characters to the absolute minimum.

My other actions all have the actions- prefix, so at the very least I would keep that.

[jcbhmr]

doesn't have a verb like "publish"

Yeah this is the biggest thing in my book. Verbs are awesome to get a quick idea of what something does. I remember that it was a literal rule in some of my compsci classes that all functions have verbs in their names. It's actually a good convention. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1991341

given how wordy the action is with my full name already in the prefix, I'd like to reduce those few characters to the absolute minimum.

I can understand this. That's why I renamed my action first from jcbhmr/publish-to-github-wiki to jcbhmr/publish-wiki but that didn't have "action" in it, so I added the suffix to seem like a vaguely english title. I guess. That worked for me. I accept that you have different preferences.

My other actions all have the actions- prefix, so at the very least I would keep that.

Understandable. I accept that, but I don't think history should necessitate or require that such a trend continue ad infinitum. break the mold lmao.

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I guess if you find my argument persuasive enough, there's never a better time than now to make change. But I understand that as-is is way easier and "safer". So yeah. I'll close this but I guess at least I proposed the idea.

Thanks for explaining your rationale! 👍 ❤ btw no hard feelings 🤣

[jcbhmr]

As further evidence for the -action suffix vs actions- prefix, I present statistical popularity of the naming conventions:

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:actions-+count:all&patternType=standard&sm=1&groupBy=repo

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:-action+count:all&patternType=standard&sm=0&groupBy=repo

I'm sorry I'm so stuck on this but it's festering in my ocd brain. 🤣

[jcbhmr]

Also this would greatly help Google SEO indexing because right now it's using the literal repo slug as the title. Hence, a more descriptive, even if it's longer title would be a good idea.

given how wordy the action is with my full name already in the prefix, I'd like to reduce those few characters to the absolute minimum.

I don't think this should be a problem. Look at how successful Andrew-Chen-Wang/github-wiki-action is! It's like 10 more chars vs the current name. Also how many times are you typing this name? Once. That's it. In one workflow file, and then never again probably. It's not like a std:: prefix that needs to be efficient instead of standard_library:: 👨‍💻 Point is that I don't think this should be a reason/excuse. Laziness or conformity with my other actions, now that's a reason! (or an excuse) 😎

I think this SEO thing is a compelling enough reason to pursue a rename. Now's the perfect time to do it while it's 🆕

opinion Also if I didn't comment on it before: the -action suffix is more "English-y".

[jcbhmr]

I guess I can live with the actions- prefix. 🤷‍♂️ I would like to see something like actions-publish-wiki though to improve the name recognition and help SEO.

[jcbhmr]

@spenserblack Is there any chance of this compromise actually happening, or should I just give up on this topic and never mention it again? 😆

[spenserblack]

Yeah, probably not going to rename. Or, at the very least, I'll hesitate/stall for a while 😆

[jcbhmr]

waitaminute what if you did

1. rename actions-wiki to publish-wiki-action
2. rename publish-wiki-action back to actions-wiki

this would get the gh alias redirect thing where I could use spenserblack/publish-wiki-action or whatever and it would work!

just an idea tho 🤷‍♀️

[spenserblack]

Interesting idea, maybe I'll try it out 🙂