WikiIndex talk:About

Namespace for "About"

This page says itself that it is a "'meta' page". So people browsing the real "content" pages or selecting "random page" won't be particularly pleased to see it. Why not reverse the redirect so that it's in the "meta" namespace? robinp 02:13, 7 Feb 2006 (EST)

Can you explain more?

I am not clear.

Goodness, I didn't know anyone was around, least of all one of the experts, Mark!!!

The page (if you reach it from a click on some of the "About" links) says "(Redirected from WikiIndex:About)". Somebody must have decided to move it to the main ("article") namespace. Maybe there was discussion and consensus. If so, I'll say no more. BUT most wikis I've been working on keep "machinery" ("meta") pages away from the article space, mostly in the "project" namespace (which here translates to "WikiIndex:"), so that visitors who don't want to contribute but do want to sample the content can click on "random page" and see nothing but content, not pages about how to create or improve the content. robinp 02:34, 7 Feb 2006 (EST)

Please show me pages examples of what you mean :-) MarkDilley | talk

Mark, Robin has a similar issue that I had when I first got here. Robin, we've been using Namespace Conventions as a place for this conversation. The status quo right now is that meta pages are in the article namespace. We've made this decision because

1. this is a wiki about wikis so meta is on topic
2. we're not using the random page feature anyway

TedErnst | talk 15:34, 7 Feb 2006 (EST)