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)

clean up

seems we are now using some of the built in namespaces, (and by the way, I can gloat, my idea of namespaces is correct! We can add 155 new namespaces to this wiki if we want) and we are using RandomPage now... MarkDilley

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see http://wikicompany.org/wiki/Wikicompany:Wikicompany_v_Wikipedia for some ideas to tease ourselves away from being thought of as a wikipedia site.

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http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/2_Thermidor_CCXIV recognizes that WikiIndex is coming from a slightly different angle than Wikipedia.

Namespace creation

I didn't really know where to put this discussion, but some MediaWikis (I'll take Uncyclopedia for instance) have spacial pages called Special:Namespaces that looks exactly like the interwiki modification. Install? – Smiddle / T·C·@ 13:34, 5 November 2006 (EST)

I'm not really sure what you're suggesting we use namespaces for. Could you please elaborate? TedErnst | talk 00:07, 6 November 2006 (EST)

The talk page to aide pages would appear at:

French namespaces

• "Discussion Aide:" instead of "Talk:Aide:"
• "Discussion WikiIndex:" instead of "Talk:WikiIndex:" well, we also need to create a new French project namespace. (Projet maybe?)

Misc

• "Proposal talk:" instead of "Talk:Proposal"
• "WikiProject talk:" instead of "Talk:WikiProject" – Smiddle / T·C·@ 14:29, 14 November 2006 (EST)

Go for it. TedErnst | talk 14:59, 14 November 2006 (EST)
We need a new project namespace in French, also. What about IndexDeDesWikis or something? – Smiddle / T·C·@ 14:12, 17 November 2006 (EST)

The Special:Namespaces page was something that appeared briefly in one fork (1.6-wikidata) of MediaWiki. It allowed bureaucrats to take control of the list of namespaces directly from the web interface instead of editing LocalSettings.php. The version currently on uncyclopedia.info is just a kludge based on the Special:Interwiki extension.

As for the namespaces themselves? The actual descriptions of each individual wiki in this index should be in a separate namespace from vanity articles about people, user pages or anything else that isn't an actual wiki description. JMHO. YMMV. --Carlb 13:33, 15 December 2006 (EST)

Still stuck

re: Generally, administrative "meta" pages like this one, which provide supporting information about the task of building WikiIndex, are in the "project" namespace, so people wanting to browse by using the "random page" button will find wikis or people, not instructions or discussions.

I think that there are conversations and 'meta' pages that I would like to see in the main namespace. ~~ MarkDilley