WikiIndex talk:Community portal/Archive 4

Because the Community Portal has a ready-made link on the sidebar, it should contain substantial content, acting as a portal (which, as all Latin scholars and many web designers know, is a set of doorways leading to various good destinations). robinp 00:49, 18 Jan 2006 (EST)

Tristam, what function does having WikiIndex in the title of this page serve? -- MarkDilley

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 Meta-wiki. Special namespaces are very common in MediaWikis. Tristram Shandy 11:34, 18 Jan 2006 (EST)

Namespaces are quite an interesting concept. I've gotten quite used to them though my editing at Wikipedia. What they do, in essense, is seperate content meant for readers (the main article namespace) from everything else (talk pages for each article, user pages, user talk pages, project pages, project talk pages, templates, template talk pages, categories, category talk pages, etc). Of course all of that is overkill here, but whatever if it is used, if effectively hidden from the casual reader. Tedernst 13:15, 18 Jan 2006 (EST)