WikiIndex talk:New page for yourself

I am liking the emerging convention of having a front level name space attached to a link to you user talk page. MarkDilley

It's a little unusual though actually. The conventional convention :-) on mediawiki sites, is to have user pages under the 'User' namespace. It's less easy to link to, which I guess is why you're preferring the CamelCase WikiWay.

The advantage is that user pages are seperate from other articles. This is handy if the wiki gets big, or if people are allowed to use nicknames, which might then get confused for real articles. It's essential on big wikis such as wikipedia, but might also be useful here, since we have quite a lot of obscure page names in the main namespace, even without user nicknames muddled in. I think for those of us using real names, it's less of an issue, but the question is, should we tell all new joiners to do it this way? Setting up the redirects is a little messy too -- Harry Wood 15:16, 29 Jan 2006 (EST)

Harry, when I got here, I proposed using the main namespace only for wikis, and using the user space for editors and the wikiindex space for meta conversations. What I came to understand is that users are part of the main space in this case because the process is part of the product. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia so users clearly don't belong in the main space. Here, we're all wiki people. Hence, we're part of the subject matter, the output, of this place. And the meta conversations are also part of the output, actually. At least that's how I come to understand it now. TedErnst | talk 19:49, 29 Jan 2006 (EST)