Seems that we have made some interesting decisions about where our tools
sit, and the purpose of our main namespace for Mediawiki.org.

I was merely pointing out the logic against the words we used. I don't
mind which but let us fix the discrepancies in placement, or words, or
logic.

Regards, Billinghurst


On Sat, 24 May 2014 10:23:46 +0430, Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Another good example would be [[Gerrit]] and it's subpages
> 
> On 5/24/14, Amir Ladsgroup <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The problem is PWB can't fit in any of the any of the namespace
>> completely, for example about the manual: "mainly for people setting
>> up their own wiki": No one needs to start their own wiki to make a bot
>> running and it's not too technical to be there.
>>
>> in other hands main namespace never was completely about general
>> information about mediawiki software. you can find pages like
>> [[Flow]], [[Echo]], etc. that they are completely separated from
>> mediawiki core and they have lots of subpages in the main namespace
>> too
>>
>> On 5/24/14, billinghurst <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 24 May 2014 06:21:32 +0430, Amir Ladsgroup
<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> Based on several discussions here and there I want to move
>>>> [[Manual:Pywikibot]] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PWB> (and all of
>>> the
>>>> subpages which are about 200 pages) to [[Pywikibot]] like other
>>>> products
>>>>
>>>> Another reason that motivates me to move is the page (and subpages)
>>> aren't
>>>> just about running a bot. they are about everything, including
reports,
>>>> discussions, description about scripts and anything about pywikibot
in
>>>> general.
>>>>
>>>> If you disagree or you have any ideas please feel free to share and
if
>>>> there will be no objection until Tuesday, I'll move them.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>
>>> Really? If that is the intention, then we should be looking to reword
>>> components of mediawiki.org, as that seems to be a bit of disconnect
...
>>>
>>> [[Project:Namespaces]] says
>>>
>>> Main:       All general information ''about'' the software.
>>> Manual: All technical or more detailed stuff behind the surface, that
is
>>> not part of the basic help pages (full handbook, mainly for people
>>> setting
>>> up their own wiki).
>>> Extension: All extensions and directly related stuff. ...  Extensions
>>> and
>>> tools, that are not part of the default MediaWiki distribution.
>>>
>>> If it is not integral to the operations of Mediawiki, doesn't it
belong
>>> in
>>> with the tools?
>>>
>>> Regards, Billinghurst
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Amir
>>

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