2013/12/19 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org:
Regarding the comparison with userspace drafts... if you check out our mockups for future enhancements (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Design_for_Draft_namespace.pdf) you'll see that we're planning a large amount of functionality to assist with drafts that can't be added to user subpages. However, there's nothing preventing a community from continuing to allow userspace drafts alongside the Draft namespace. That's what English Wikipedia decided to do.
Thanks for elaborating, Steven, but I think the point is not about drafting articles in the user namespace _alongside_ the draft namespace. We would probably decline to introduce a draft namespace in the first place in dewiki. I hope very much that we won't have another conflict as we had with the visual editor earlier this year. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place for endless experiments. It is not the WMF to decide on the policy in language versions. This is up to the community.
Regards, Jürgen.