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 I think that there are conversations and 'meta' pages that I would like to see in the main namespace. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]
+== What does it mean that "WikiIndex is not an encyclopedia"? ==
+Do you mean that it's not a general encyclopedia, or that it's not even an encyclopedia of wikis? When I think of an encyclopedia, I think of a site that, even though it may restrict its scope to certain topics, will cover those topics thoroughly (hence the name "encyclopedia"; "encyclopedic" mean "comprehensive in terms of information"). But it seems like WikiIndex wants to limit its entries to basic facts about the wikis and wiki people in question. (There aren't a lot of articles here about wiki ideas, and none of those articles are very long, so there's not much precedent to show how a lengthy article about a wiki idea would be handled; but we've had a few long articles about wikis and wiki people, which were cut down).
+If that's the direction you want to go in, fine. The site is, after all, Wiki "Index"; an index usually only contains very short blurbs, with a few statistics, about its subject matter. But we should clarify this in the about page, so people know.
+An index tends to be boring reading, even though it may lead you in the direction of interesting content. An encyclopedia tends to be more interesting reading, as there is a lot to explore without needing to leave the encyclopedia. But both indexes and encyclopedias have their separate uses. Most of us come to wiki articles by means of Google, which is an index; and even wiki encyclopedias have their own indexes (e.g. categories). [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 15:59, 12 May 2014 (UTC)