https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57569
--- Comment #26 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #25) > I have a hard time understanding what is going on here? If this was any other > wiki, we would note that their is community consensus, and implement the > change. > > The only thing slightly iffy thing here is to be able to let anons create > pages > in this namespace - that might require someone taking 10 seconds writing a > hook > (Or even better, someone fixing mediawiki so we have proper per-namespace > permissions). However that can easily be done later. the robots thing is > already a config option. > > Furthermore, all these various "config" related changes are trivial to change > after the fact if people discover they want something different. > > New namespaces get created for other wikis all the time. This has > traditionally > been something that has entirely been up to the community to decide for > themselves. I don't understand why enwiki gets treated so differently. > > >Key minimum requirements for launch are being hashed out at > >https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespace > > Kind of seems odd this is being written up on mediawiki.org, for something > that > is in essence a config change coming out of enwikipedia community. Its not > like > there are non-user facing technical hurtles to surmount. There's no new db > schema being proposed or anything like that. I suggest you check out the mediawiki.org page and the associated bug 57315. They both include some explanation, including the technical discussions involved about implementation, and about future plans. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
