Hi,
Gregory Maxwell a écrit :
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.
I am obviously against deleting the main namespace on Commons. It has many useful uses. Please see for example for a chronological classification of data, which is not possible with a category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi Also other namespaces have also a bad referencement.
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?
Regards,
Yann