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

[Carcharoth]

Oops! That's right, I completely forgot that! :-/

Carcharoth

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Andrew
Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Non-logged in people cant create new articles.
>
> ----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
>> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2009 17:10:41 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results
>>
>> 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
>>
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