WikiIndex:Namespace conventions

This wiki has many namespaces. How are we doing to use them, if at all? Template:TOCright

main

• All wiki entries
• Wiki people pages
• Normal Articles related to with WikiSphere in general, such as AntiSpamMeasures
• What else goes here?

WikiIndex

• Community Portal
• Do meta pages go here or main?

Based on the below conversation, I propose the the WikiIndex: namespace not be used at all. This means Community Portal, this page (Namespace Conventions), and all other pages currently in the WikiIndex namespace will be move to the main space. I'm happy to do these moves if this is okay with folks. TedErnst 18:10, 21 Jan 2006 (EST)

User

• Not used. Since automatic signatures link here, see the redirect at User:MarkDilley. It goes to MarkDilley, which has a link back to his user talk page.

User talk

• The user talk page is the only place where notification of messages will work.

Category

• Categories go here.

Template

• Templates go here.

Images

• Uploaded Logos
• Uploaded People Pictures
• Uploaded Charictures

Examples of issues discussed

• I believe TedErnst was trying to help me understand that RecursiveNatureOfWiki belonged somewhere else, perhaps WikiIndex: RecursiveNatureOfWiki. Is this what you were thinking Ted? Best, MarkDilley
  • I see articles about wiki in general, like the spam measures example above, as perfectly legitimate in the main namespace. As RecursiveNatureOfWiki stands right now, it seems like a meta conversation that would be better placed at [[WikiIndex: RecursiveNatureOfWiki]. Now I'm not sure I grok the concept so I might be missing it and maybe it really isn't meta issue for this wiki, but a larger issue of the WikiSphere, in which case it seems to me it should stay where it is. Is my way of thinking about these things helpful to anyone? TedErnst 13:50, 21 Jan 2006 (EST)

• It is helpful, because I know you have ideas about organization, it is just us trying to discover our (diff)! :-) Do WikiIndex: Foo stay out of the random page generator? Or is it that they are labeled that way, and thus more easily disinguished by the average user? MarkDilley
  • We're not using the random page thing at this point, so I'd saw we should ignore that as an argument for namespaces. My present feeling on this is the meta pages should use WikiIndex:Foo because they are internal documents of, by, and for editors of this wiki. External documents are anything we think the average reader should be seeing. As described above, so far we have Wikis, WikiPeople and ArticlesAboutWikiSphere in that category. If you'd like to also have the meta pages there, obviously you can. And since that's simpler, maybe it's even better that way. We know template and category are useful namespaces because they have different functionality. User talk is useful because of the notification feature. Those are all of the namespace-related functions that I know of. If your requirement is functionality, then I see no reason at all to use the WikiIndex namespace. I can't really come up with anything convincing to say why we should use it for meta conversations, but I still think we should. I will not pout if it's decide otherwise. :-) TedErnst 15:50, 21 Jan 2006 (EST)