[WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Carcharoth wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM, FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd be in favor of a "Draft:" namespace, which users could use for drafting
>>> articles. Content to be non-spidered. That way we can tell a user to see if
>>> some other user has started work on a draft already.
>>>
>>> This would possibly help collaboration, ensure only credible articles get
>>> mainspaced, yet retain "anyone can edit" and the gradual development of
>>> stubs without pressure to delete.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>
>> It's been suggested before. What it needs is someone to drive the idea forward.
>>
>>
> Notice that if you now try to start the page [[dummydummy]], you get
> offered the chance to draft it at [[Special:MyPage/Dummydummy
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyPage/Dummydummy&action=edit>]].
> I'm not entirely clear what the preferred route is from there. But I
> imagine suggestions for drafting as more systematically encouraged
> should be grafted onto this use of special pages.

I *think* that is only for people who are logged in.

Carcharoth