https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18793
Summary: Free up "Project" as a namespace (for
Wikipedia:Projects) by using an alternate token
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Installation
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
I remember asking Starling about this a few years ago, and though I thought his
answer was unsatisfactory, I suppose I figured it would have been corrected
anyway. It hadn't come up again until recent discussion:
> "...[It] might be called something like "Wikipedia:WikiProject [Scope],"
> though
> the usage of the above terminology is attributable to a unfortunate
> convergence of
> factors:
> 1) An unfortunate technical/technocratic inability to use the word "Project"
> as a
> namespace (which would produce something elegant like "Project:[Scope]")
> " 2) A likewise unfortunate tendency to honor CamelCase as a kind of
> Wikipudlian
> meme, and
> 3) An equally unfortunate propensity we all have for using the word "wiki" in
> any
> context imaginable. "
> ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-May/100680.html )
AIUI, the reason is that the word "Project" is currently used as a standard
substitute for a MediaWiki project's actual name, either because :
* someone hasn't entered a unique or else local name when they install MW.
* code usage, to refer to the main meta namespace.
The first one is solved simply by requiring the input of a <s>project</s> wiki
name, which isn't unreasonable.
The second is solved simply by using something other than "project" as a token
in code. If a token is required, something like "project_" "projectname" "meta"
or "metaspace" could conceivably work just as well.
Again, the idea is to free up "Project" for usage with actual subprojects,
which is a more important usage of that namespace, IMHO.
-SV
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