This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki language, so even if you force "Project" down the throats of non-English users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian wikis and so on. Thus, you're attempting to disrupt MediaWiki's localizability for the sake of your ephemerous Inclumedia project. I don't think this is what our users want.
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Nathan Larson <[email protected]>wrote: > I propose that we change the installer to make Project:, rather than the > wiki name, the default option for meta namespace > <Manual:$wgMetaNamespace>name (i.e. namespace > 4 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces>). > See bug 60168 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60168>. Here > is an image of what I have in mind that the installer should show: > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/b/b9/ProjectDefaultNamespace.png > > Rationales: > 1) Standardizing the name makes life easier when people copy content from > one wiki to another. E.g., if you import a template that links to > Project:Policy rather than BarWiki:Policy, you don't need to edit the > imported template, because it already links where it should. > > 2) Having the meta namespace name be the same as the wiki name causes > collisions with interwiki prefixes when content is copied from one wiki to > another. E.g., suppose FooWiki has an interwiki prefix linking to BarWiki > (barwiki:) and then a user imports a template from BarWiki that links to > BarWiki:Policy. That will now link interwiki to BarWiki's mainspace page > "Policy" rather than to Project:Policy. It is not even possible to import > BarWiki:Policy until the interwiki barwiki: prefix is first removed; the > importer will say "Page 'BarWiki:Policy' is not imported because its name > is reserved for external linking (interwiki)." > > 3) If you ever change the name of the wiki, you then have to change all the > wikilinks to FooWiki: namespace; if it were Project:, they would stay the > same. True, you can use namespace > aliases<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespaceAliases>, > but that could defeat part of the point of rebranding, which is to > deprecate use of the old wiki name. > > 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? > > -- > Nathan Larson <https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
