[Wikipedia-l] Wikiproject

[Manning Bartlett]

Tarquin et al

I've noticed a excellent trend towards achieving consistency lately. The WikiProject was an attempt to instill some consistency back in the days when achieving that was (software-wise) far more difficult. As you pointed out it did not adequately include naming conventions.

I think a namespace for such things would be beneficial. I actually don't care what the namespace, as long as it is easy to use. A "Wikiproject" namespace has a few arguments for it - it's obviously NOT an article topic (unlike "conventions" or similar). Also a lot of work has already been done using this name so changing it would take some editing.

Manning


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  Message: 5
  Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:42:06 +0100
  From: tarquin <tarquin at planetunreal.com>
  To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com
  Subject: [Wikipedia-l] hello list; WikiProject
  Reply-To: wikipedia-l at nupedia.com

  hello all.
  I'd like to volunteer for the moving of WikiProject & associated pages 
  over to Wikipedia: namespace.
  before I do, though, could I ask for thoughts on a different name?
  I suggest something like "presentation schemes", to stand alongside 
  "naming conventions"
  alternatively, should "naming conventions" be absorbed into 
  WikiProjects? the original proposal is about naming schemes as well as 
  consistent content presentation.

  Another question: is there a main page of some sort for the Wikipedia: 
  namespace? Should there be?

  tarquin



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