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It is WikiIndex:Community Portal in the sidebar. I did not notice that it is Community Portal in some other bar until I moved the page. WikiIndex prefix tells that the page is related to the community itself, it is not an ordinary article. You can read more about namespaces in [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace Meta-wiki]. Special namespaces are very common in MediaWikis. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 11:34, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | It is WikiIndex:Community Portal in the sidebar. I did not notice that it is Community Portal in some other bar until I moved the page. WikiIndex prefix tells that the page is related to the community itself, it is not an ordinary article. You can read more about namespaces in [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace Meta-wiki]. Special namespaces are very common in MediaWikis. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] 11:34, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
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* 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, [[User:MarkDilley|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? [[User:TedErnst|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? [[User:MarkDilley|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. :-) [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 15:50, 21 Jan 2006 (EST) | |||