On 11-09-20 10:54 PM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote: TL;DR version: - Random user comments that sites could use a defined place to safely declare custom namespaces and points out that as of writing nothing was inside the 500-599 range. - A few other users chime in that it's a good idea. - One user chimes in that it would be a good idea to notify the mailing lists, however no-one does this. - About a year later one of the users comes back and declares that since no-one objected 500-599 is reserved for site namespaces. - A few months later as part of porting some of ArmchairGM's/Wikia's extensions marks off on the page that the BlogPage extension has been using 500-501 for awhile. - The user that declared 500-599 for site-namespaces comes back and reverts Jack's edit. - Jack starts a discussion on the talkpage. Also comments on the sillyness of 500-599 being 'the' site-specific range. - User says the matter was open for discussion for 11 months, comments on that page being a 'reservation system' etc... - Jack comments on how practically no-one namely us developers even knew about that discussion, and how no matter what the page says the code in svn is still using those namespaces. - After a few other comments the user goes back to talking about 'rules', '[talking] to someone [of] authority', saying the range was 'duly registered by prior agreement'. - Another user comments on the ridiculousness of the assertion. The TL;DR-TL;DR version: Uhm... User gets a big head and starts wikilawyering and reverting people on a page that's supposed to list information rather than have some sort of authoritative registration process, claims that things were up for discussion when no-developer was ever really notified, no-one really discussed it, and the whole thing was based on a false premise in the first place. ---- I've restored the info which IS valid information. Ripped out the registration of a site-specific range of namespaces. Added notes about current custom site namespace practices to the page to take note of when defining default namespaces for extensions. And renamed the page and removed all notion of a "registration" from the page which is nothing but a list of current practice to help extension developers avoid creating conflicts with other extensions when they write new code. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]