I must admit, I'm not a huge fan of multiple namespaces in wikis.
They're mostly not necessary! :-) (Don't worry, I'm not suggesting
getting rid of any either.)
And certainly, from the point of view of integrating Wikidata and moving
towards better metadata and searchability, I don't think we need all
Wikisources to unify on any particular set of namespaces. I think any
future metadata system must just work with all the different current set-
ups (and I think it can, quite well).
—Sam.

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, at 05:21 PM, Anika Born wrote:
> Billinghurst, 
> 
> That might work for me, with a Login. 
> 
> But does this also work for random readers, who don't have a login?
> Who don't know, that there are preferences (and especially what can be
> done with them?)> 
> But more important: please don't (just) focus in namespaces for every
> Wikisource-Project. You might loose at least de.WS. I can't see
> changing something, that works fine for this project...  Especially
> not to change a system, that is quite different, from what they have
> now. That is all I am asking for. de.ws is working with templates to
> differ, not with namespaces.> 
> for instance Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: [1]
> 
> Goethe was an author, but there are also works about Goethe. In de.ws
> portal-page and author-page about Geothe are merged in one. There is
> no difference. Don't expect something else.> 
> Best, Anika
> 
> 2017-11-02 9:07 GMT+01:00 billinghurst <[email protected]>:
>> __
>> Anika,
>> 
>> That is matter long resolved in my opinion with the change in the
>> default search namespaces that the communities made, and similarly
>> with our redefining content namespaces. While main namespace will
>> always take preference to the other nss in results, they show up
>> pretty quickly where you have an intitle: match.>> 
>> At enWS I would say that we lost more searches to subpages, so with
>> the ability to change your search preferences with subphrase matches,
>> much of that is addressed (though it is not the default search
>> configuration at this point).>> 
>> The completion suggester[2] is an algorithm for search suggestions
>> with better typo correction and search relevance.>> 
>> Default (recommended)
>> Corrects up to two typos. Resolves close redirects.
>> 
>> Subphrase matching (recommended for longer page titles)
>> Corrects up to two typos. Resolves close redirects. Matches subphrase
>> in titles.>> 
>> Strict mode (advanced)
>> No typo correction. No accent folding. Strict matching.
>> 
>> Redirect mode (advanced)
>> No typo correction. Resolves close redirects.
>> 
>> Redirect mode with subphrase matching (advanced)
>> No typo correction. Resolves close redirects. Matches subphrase in
>> titles.>> 
>> Regards, Billinghurst
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From: "Anika Born" <[email protected]>
>> To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" <wikisource-
>> [email protected]>>> 
>> Sent: 2/11/2017 6:37:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] wikisource "work" pages or "multiple
>> editions" pages>> 
>>> 2017-11-01 16:40 GMT+01:00 Nicolas VIGNERON
>>> <[email protected]>:>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> From afar, the Opera: pages on it.ws are very close to the pages
>>>> with the template {{Éditions}} on fr.ws or the template
>>>> {{Versions}} on en.ws (and similar system elsewhere).>>>> 
>>>> The main difference is having a separate namespace A second major
>>>> difference is that the templates on fr.ws and en.ws are very light
>>>> while the {{Opera}} template took data from Wikidata (but that's an
>>>> independent problem, it's possible to change the  {{Éditions}} or
>>>> {{Versions}} templates to do exactly the same thing without having
>>>> a specific namespace).>>>> 
>>>> I'm almost convinced too, but in order to create a new namespace on
>>>> a project you have to convinced the local community. That's why I'm
>>>> still playing the Devil's advocate role and want to learn about the
>>>> inconvenients of this system>>> 
>>> A reason why there are no different namespaces for work-, edition-,
>>> author-, list- and other portal pages in de.ws is the ws-search.
>>> When you are looking for "Goethe" in the (simple) search (as readers
>>> may do) on WS, you might get to>>> * 
>>> https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Tafellied,_zu_Goethe%E2%80%99s_Geburtstage
>>>   but not to>>> * 
>>> https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe[3] with
>>>   all the interesting stuff, if that page was in another
>>>   namespace...>>> 
>>> So there was the desition to use templates (and categories) for
>>> these different kind of pages:
>>> https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Seiten_zu_Autoren,_Texten,_Themen,_Listen>>>
>>>  
>>> I think German Wikisource Community won't give this up and switch to
>>> using multiple namespaces (besides Wikisource: and Page:namespace).>>> 
>>> Best 
>>> Anika
>> 
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Links:

  1. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe#Bibliographien
  2. 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester
  3. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe#Bibliographien
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