On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:11 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson <[email protected]> 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 namespaces aren't the same thing as the project
> namespace?


The Category namespace isn't the same thing as the Template or User
namespaces either, but by default it's called by the same name from one
wiki to the next. So, what makes the meta namespace so special?

If the argument is "The contents of the meta namespace differ from one wiki
to the next; therefore the name of the meta namespace should also differ",
that same argument could apply to all the other namespaces as well. The
templates of enwiktionary, for example, differ from the templates of
enwiki, but the namespace is called Template: on both.
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