A Topic Name is usually two or more capitalized words jammed together; the name identifies a Wiki Topic on the Wiki.

OK, there's a bit more to it than that, but that's enough for most users most of the time.

If you want to force a word that wouldn't normally be a Topic Name to be one, surround it with brackets. (e.g., [eHome]). You are strongly encouraged not to do this, as it complicates what is supposed to be a simple process for creating web pages.

Most of the time, you'll only see topic names in these simple forms. There are two fancier things you might see: fully-qualified names and versions.

Fully-Qualified Topic Names

A fully-qualified topic name has the form <namespace>.<topic>. For example, Microsoft.Projects.Wiki.AboutTopicNames. In this case, Microsoft.Projects.Wiki is the Wiki Namespace and AboutTopicNames is the Topic Name. It's very rare that you'll need this form. Almost its only use is for refering to a topic where the unqualified name would be ambiguous (i.e., when "the same" topic appears in two [visible] namespaces).

Fully-qualified topic names for namespaces that do not exist are not rendered as links.

Versions

A topic name usually simply identifies the most recent version of a topic. However, you can make a topic name that refers to a specific version of a topic. This takes the form of topicName(version). -- David Ornstein

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More Details

A few more gory details about Topic Names:

• Topic Names must start with an uppercase letter (i.e. use Pascal Case)
• You can have multiple capital letters in a Topic Name; just be sure there's at least one lowercase letter or a digit
• Topic Names can optionally start with a single underscore

Using Brackets

If you want to violate some of these rules, you can use brackets to make a slightly larger set of strings into Topic Names.

Thus [eDocument] can be made into a topic name even though it doesn't meet the rules above for automatically recognizing topic names.

When you use brackets, you can have any mix of letters, digits and underscores in any order.