2013/12/19 Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
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.