Note that Project and Project talk already work on any wiki. They are the
canonical names for the namespace in question.
Namespaces have:
* a localised/standard name for the local wiki (based on configuration like
Wikipedia and/or localisation like Usario).
* a canonical name (that is language
On 05/04/2014 05:08 AM, Max Semenik wrote:
This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki
language, so even if you force Project down the throats of non-English
users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian
wikis and so on.
I think you may
I propose that we change the installer to make Project:, rather than the
wiki name, the default option for meta namespace
Manual:$wgMetaNamespacename (i.e. namespace
4 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces).
See bug 60168
On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote:
4) We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that are,
by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for
making an exception for the meta namespace?
Because the Template/User
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:11 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote:
4) We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that
are,
by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for
This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki
language, so even if you force Project down the throats of non-English
users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian
wikis and so on. Thus, you're attempting to disrupt MediaWiki's
localizability
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki
language, so even if you force Project down the throats of non-English
users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian
