I thought I'd give some thoughts on this, but I'm afraid they may not amount to much more than one man's vague ramblings. Feel free to ignore if you're pressed for time ;) On 19/10/05, Levi Waldron wrote: be all in one namespace, as they are all basically the "primary business" of the wiki. Remember that wikis in general were conceived as vehicles for discussion as well as collaborating on an "end product". The reason Wikipedia divided the two roles is so that it could prevent a "pretty face" to readers outside the community - so discussions about particular pages were put in a "Talk:" namespace, and wider discussions and policies in a "Wikipedia:" ("Project:") namespace. Or, depending how well these things map, you could perhaps use the existing "discussion" namespace to discuss the *topic* of each "article", rather than just the content of the article itself. But you mention "case studies", which maybe would be conceptually different from general topics within the field, in which case putting them in a "Case study" namespace might make sense. Oh, and as for people forgetting to type prefixes, remember that they're always displayed in the title at the top of the page, so I think it's pretty easy to get used to "Case study:Foo" being a different page from "Foo", just as it's different from "Foo (case study)" or any other convention. And case studies, if that's what they'd be, are unlikely to be linked with "accidental linking" in mid-sentence (as in "the [[dog]] ate the [[hat]]") because you're generally referring to the specific document, not the concept. So your key concepts could stay in the main namespace, and be linked to nice and easily, but case studies could be kept apart as something conceptually different. Well, on the optimist side of that, Wikipedia started off without namespaces, because they hadn't been invented yet, and moved content into the right namespaces later. And if your wiki grows to the point where it's a lot of work to do all the renaming, you'll have a fair userbase there to help do it :) PS: Just a quick note, that "Wikipedia" is a trademark, signifying the Wikipedia.org website[s] and nothing else; the generic term is simply "wiki", although I guess that's not specific enough for your meaning here. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/Names (which hopefully won't make you even more confused). -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]