https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17143
Summary: Introduce magic word that restricts certain categories
(and their sub-categories) to the article namespace.
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Categories
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
On Wikipedia, there is the following problem: Often, if a new article is badly
written or unfinished, it is moved from the article namespace to the user
namespace (as a subpage of the creator's user page). This is a compromise which
ensures the quality of Wikipedia (as the bad article is no longer part of the
encyclopedia) and gives the user the chance to improve the article and then
move it back in ns-0.
However, pages that are moved from the encyclopedic namespace to a user
namespace still appear in categories, that are reserved for encyclopedic
articles. This shouldn't be the case, as those articles where moved into user
space to remove them from the encyclopedic sector.
Therefor it'd be useful to have a magic word, perhaps something like:
__NAMESPACEZEROONLY__, which restricts certain categories (such as
Category:Articles) and their subcategories to pages in ns-0. User pages would
still have the link to those categories, but they wouldn't appear in them as
long as they are in the user namespace.
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