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I am liking the emerging convention of having a front level name space attached to a link to you user talk page. [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] | I am liking the emerging convention of having a front level name space attached to a link to you user talk page. [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] | ||
: It's a little unusual though actually. The conventional convention :-) on mediawiki sites, is to have user pages under the 'User' namespace. It's less easy to link to, which I guess is why you're preferring the CamelCase WikiWay. | |||
: The advantage is that user pages are seperate from other articles. This is handy if the wiki gets big, or if people are allowed to use nicknames, which might then get confused for real articles. It's essential on big wikis such as wikipedia, but might also be useful here, since we have quite a lot of obscure page names in the main namespace, even without user nicknames muddled in. I think for those of us using real names, it's less of an issue, but the question is, should we tell all new joiners to do it this way? Setting up the redirects is a little messy too -- [[User:Harry Wood|Harry Wood]] 15:16, 29 Jan 2006 (EST) | |||
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I am liking the emerging convention of having a front level name space attached to a link to you user talk page. MarkDilley
- It's a little unusual though actually. The conventional convention :-) on mediawiki sites, is to have user pages under the 'User' namespace. It's less easy to link to, which I guess is why you're preferring the CamelCase WikiWay.
- The advantage is that user pages are seperate from other articles. This is handy if the wiki gets big, or if people are allowed to use nicknames, which might then get confused for real articles. It's essential on big wikis such as wikipedia, but might also be useful here, since we have quite a lot of obscure page names in the main namespace, even without user nicknames muddled in. I think for those of us using real names, it's less of an issue, but the question is, should we tell all new joiners to do it this way? Setting up the redirects is a little messy too -- Harry Wood 15:16, 29 Jan 2006 (EST)