[WikiEN-l] Project as namespace

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 2/6/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikienl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/6/07, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (As a practical point, the amount of work needed to move everything to
> > a new namespace is staggering; it's not something to be done on a
> > whim.)
>
> Sysadmins could probably be persuaded to mass-move all
> Wikipedia:WikiProject X to WikiProject:X via maintenance script.  Or a
> bot could do it.

Yah, but the actual page moves are the trivial part.  It's cleaning up
everything else (templates, instructions, boilerplate, etc.) that
depends on pages being in a certain place that's going to be the
time-consuming part.  (And it's not something that can be done by a
bot, either; it'll require significant work on the part of the actual
WikiProjects being moved.)

Kirill