WikiIndex:Namespace conventions: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:17, 19 January 2006

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

Do editors namepages go here or main?
- MarkDilley has one solution where his User page redirect to his main page and his main page has a link back to his user talk page. The user talk page is the only place where notification of messages will work, so if that feature is desired, keep this in mind. It's "cleaner" to link to MarkDilley than to User:MarkDilley and our category wiki people list looks a bit odd with User: before people's names (some people don't mind this, especially if we're allowing psydonyms).

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 {{TOCright}}
 ==main==
-* All wiki entries go in the main article space, clearly.
+* All wiki entries
+* Wiki people pages
 * What else goes here?
-** Are we using the Random Page feature?  If not, never mind.  If so, then I believe it searches only in the main namespace, so if we want people to be able to find random wikis only, not random users or meta conversations, let's take this into account.
-* We kind of hope that WikiIndex will be more than a list of Wikis. Initially we have added [[:Category:Wiki People|Wiki People]] as the second major dataset. As we have done in [http://ICANNWiki.org ICANNWiki], we hope to be able to put names to faces and build a more connected and less isolated community of people who consider themselves wiki people. We hope to really kick this off at the [http://recentchangescamp.org RecentChangesCamp] in Feb. To answer your question directly we would like to keep all of these major datasets in the main namespace to facilitate crosslinking of the datasets. In the case of the user namespace we don't want to limit Wiki People to users and we don't want them to have to use the namespace prefix when crosslinking. [[User:John Stanton|John Stanton]] 12:26, 19 Jan 2006 (EST)
-* I think Random pages are not an important issue to us right now. [[User:John Stanton|John Stanton]] 12:26, 19 Jan 2006 (EST)
 ==WikiIndex==