I propose (again) a change to the Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name]
namespace of the form:
Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name] Project:Name
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:54 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
I propose (again) a change to the Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name]
namespace of the form:
Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name] Project:Name
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I would presume for ease of use - it's shorter to write and is more
immediately clear (to the non-wikipedian) what is meant.
I guess that the underlying idea is that Wikiprojects (and indeed any form
of collaboration that is more complex than what can be handled in an
individual article's
Bejinhan bejin...@gmail.com wrote:
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Ease.
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Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess that the underlying idea is that Wikiprojects (and indeed any form
of collaboration that is more complex than what can be handled in an
individual article's talkpage) are such a fundamental part of the way we go
about building the encyclopedia that
stevertigo wrote:
I propose (again) a change to the Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name]
namespace of the form:
Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name] Project:Name
One problem: The major wikis are already known as Projects. IIRC
Wikiproject is a product of disambiguation. Perhaps a different name
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
One problem: The major wikis are already known as Projects. IIRC
Wikiproject is a product of disambiguation. Perhaps a different name
might work.
...and I'm pretty sure that Project: is a required alias for the
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net
wrote:
One problem: The major wikis are already known as Projects. IIRC
Wikiproject is a product of disambiguation. Perhaps a different name
might
On 17 August 2010 08:51, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
One problem: The major wikis are already known as Projects. IIRC
Wikiproject is a product of disambiguation. Perhaps a different name
might work.
It would, that's a sensible idea.
Another easy option is to use a term like collaboration, or to put the
topic first.
Collaboration:Cosmology?
Military history collaboration?
FT2
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:41 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 August 2010 08:51, Casey Brown
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikiproject: would be fine as a namespace name.
That works. Something simple.
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On 17 August 2010 10:54, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikiproject: would be fine as a namespace name.
That works. Something simple.
Can I predict a heated 100-kilobyte discussion over Wikiproject:
versus WikiProject:?
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 August 2010 10:54, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikiproject: would be fine as a namespace name.
That works. Something simple.
Can I predict a heated 100-kilobyte
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Can I predict a heated 100-kilobyte discussion over Wikiproject:
versus WikiProject:?
Is there that much CamelCase support still? I thought it was bad
enough we were stuck with sticking wiki- onto everything.
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
One problem: The major wikis are already known as Projects. IIRC
Wikiproject is a product of disambiguation. Perhaps a different name
might work.
On 17 August 2010 11:34, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
This is true. And it's exactly what was said last time it was
requested[0]. Any other choice (WikiProject, etc) would
work just fine.
[0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/18793
Run the idea of a Wikiproject: namespace past the
stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Run the idea of a Wikiproject: namespace past the village pump,
build a consensus and then a new namespace should be easy enough.
Posted.
On 17 August 2010 14:54, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
Posted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Rename_Wikipedia:WikiProject_namespace
Supported :-D
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David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Supported :-D
srsly.
wondering if Project can still work if we hack from Cyrillic or IPA glyphs
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On 17 August 2010 15:02, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Supported :-D
srsly.
And as predicted, all the queru^Wdetailed discussion is about what to
call it. Join us now and feed the bikeshedding!
wondering if Project can still work if we hack from
If these pages were moved to Wikiproject:... would there be any
problems with our continuing to use WP: as a shortcut prefix?
eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut#List_of_prefixes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace#Aliases
This was sent to internal-l (the chapter-Foundation list), but Arthur
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Note the bit where you can mark your test donation not to actually be taken :-)
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