What are you meaning with "reserving the main namespace for main
pages"? Do you mean pages that currently reside in the Commons
namespace?
Perhaps somebody can run a script through the main namespace that
filters out all pages that do not contain images?
Bryan
On 1/29/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29/01/07, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I see a lot of misplaced pages, spam, and utter
insanity appear in the
main namespace on commons. There is also a lot of confusion about how
the main namespace should be used.
What do you think of the idea of moving all the galleries to a
gallery: namespace, then reserving the main namespace for main pages
and pretty much nothing else. After that point we could prevent main
namespace page creation and make the edit page give a nice "You are
confused, here is how you find help" message.
The work it would take to accomplish this could be completely
automated, although some inter project cooperation would be required
to fix gallery linking templates and the like.
I see a lot of potential to reduce confusion, and not a lot of real
downsides. So I must be missing something. Thoughts?
It seems unnecessary to me. My feeling is that our mainspace spam is
only overly visible due to the facts that (a) we allow anon editors to
start articles (and I hope we continue to), and (b) we have very few
Special:Newpages patrollers (I have a look from time to time, I know
Herbythyme has been doing quite a lot lately).
I think changing the main namespace tab name to 'gallery' has been a
great change. What makes you say that "There is also a lot of
confusion about how
the main namespace should be used"?
Perhaps all we need is more admins deleting namespace crud. I delete
on sight 99% of anything that is only text. Even if it's in another
language. A lot of them look like misplaced articles or promo bios.
regards,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
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