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MarkDilley (talk | contribs) (Jack, I understand that you, as a MediaWiki person, feel it is silly for a MediaWiki wiki to use CamelCase. The point here is that while Wikipedia is the most popular wiki "product" in the world - it is far from the most superior wiki engine. I wou) |
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: I checked the history of the page and that part was added in 2006, during the onslaught of people thinking that Wikipedia was the way to run a wiki. I think the intention of that statement is '''WikiIndex is not Wikipedia, in terms of its culture.''' - Anyone else around that remembers that? Best, [[MarkDilley]] | : I checked the history of the page and that part was added in 2006, during the onslaught of people thinking that Wikipedia was the way to run a wiki. I think the intention of that statement is '''WikiIndex is not Wikipedia, in terms of its culture.''' - Anyone else around that remembers that? Best, [[MarkDilley]] | ||
:: I filed this deletion request before I noticed the bigger concept of "WikiIdeas" you started. I think it's okay to remove the template until we found a solution for that. To me, your "WikiIdeas" just look like guidelines or best practises, that should be mentioned in the WikiIndex namespace and explained on wikipedia. They are meta information, not content, and therefore shouldn't be in the main space. --[[User:Bachsau|Bachsau]] 00:06, 30 June 2012 (PDT) | :: I filed this deletion request before I noticed the bigger concept of "WikiIdeas" you started. I think it's okay to remove the template until we found a solution for that. To me, your "WikiIdeas" just look like guidelines or best practises, that should be mentioned in the WikiIndex namespace and explained on wikipedia. They are meta information, not content, and therefore shouldn't be in the main space. --[[User:Bachsau|Bachsau]] 00:06, 30 June 2012 (PDT) | ||
: ''The idea I have about Wiki is different than Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is a product. That idea is that everything in the wiki, how the wiki is run, is part of the content, i.e. Wikis, WikiPeople and WikiIdeas. My preference is for a flat wiki, like [[OddMuse]]. Best, [[MarkDilley]] | : ''The idea I have about Wiki is different than Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is a product. That idea is that everything in the wiki, how the wiki is run, is part of the content, i.e. Wikis, WikiPeople and WikiIdeas. My preference is for a flat wiki, like [[:Category:Oddmuse|OddMuse]]. Best, [[MarkDilley]] | ||
::: This needs keeping, though this article needs moving to the 'WikiIndex:' namespace. I'll delete the 'delete' tag! [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 07:57, 9 September 2012 (PDT) | ::: This needs keeping, though this article needs moving to the 'WikiIndex:' namespace. I'll delete the 'delete' tag! [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 07:57, 9 September 2012 (PDT) | ||
:: Don't think it ''needs'' to be moved to the WikiIndex namespace - it is a core [[Wiki]] function, historically and for some wiki software. ~~ [[MarkDilley]] | :: Don't think it ''needs'' to be moved to the WikiIndex namespace - it is a core [[Wiki]] function, historically and for some wiki software. ~~ [[MarkDilley]] | ||
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Jack, I understand that you, as a MediaWiki person, feel it is silly for a MediaWiki wiki to use CamelCase. The point here is that while Wikipedia is the most popular wiki "product" in the world - it is far from the most superior wiki engine. I would feel comfortable in saying that if it weren't for CamelCase, wiki may not have taken off for the six years, and one year of Wikipedia. Best, [[MarkDilley]] | Jack, I understand that you, as a MediaWiki person, feel it is silly for a MediaWiki wiki to use CamelCase. The point here is that while Wikipedia is the most popular wiki "product" in the world - it is far from the most superior wiki engine. I would feel comfortable in saying that if it weren't for CamelCase, wiki may not have taken off for the six years, and one year of Wikipedia. Best, [[MarkDilley]] | ||
:"''MediaWiki . . . is far from the most superior wiki engine''" – that's a powerful statement! If you genuinely feel that is true, why are we using MW for WikiIndex? <confused> Which wiki engines do you feel are superior to MediaWiki? | |||
:Whilst I understand and respect your personal opinion on Wikipeda, I feel you are not understanding that wiki editors of 2012 are ''not'' the same as wiki editors of 2006. I would guess that the overwealming majority of todays' wikis <u>only</u> know MediaWiki, be that a cause/effect of the Wikipedia issue, or otherwise. The vast majority of wiki editors today will probably think that the only way to edit a wiki (especially a MediaWiki wiki) will be the 'Wikipedia way' - which does not include CamelCase. Whatever your personal preferences are, you can't 'un-invent the wheel', and weather we like it or not, we can't un-invent the Wikipedia way. [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 01:18, 8 October 2012 (PDT) | |||