Thread:Project:Support desk/Whats the easiest way to get ' user group key ' (2)/reply (4)

Regarding spaces in Group Names. The documentation is clear that spaces are not permissible in Namespace names. I haven't come across anything stating that spaces in group names will not work; in fact, I thought I saw a couple of examples using spaces in group names.

I have some other custom namespaces and groups to play around with. So far, I have not found any difference between group names with spaces and group names with underscore characters instead of a space. There could be many reasons why I would not see problems occurring with MediaWiki or extensions when using group names with spaces.

I suspect that if you need two words in a group name and abbreviations won't cut it, best practice would be to use an underscore or dash, e.g. Peaceful_Ninja, Peaceful-Ninja.

Is there a reason/convention for using a dash instead of an underscore in group names?