On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:56 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
.... Perhaps this contains the germ of an idea: a process "Drafts for mainspace", a review debating unuserfying. The "Bizarre Records" solution to our problems - "just what <s>the world</s> Wikipedia needs, another <s>record label</s> contentious process".
Either namespace, or another independent namespace ("Drafts").
User namespace makes things harder to find; which is not necessarily appropriate. We want drafts to be communally findable - to encourage contributions, fixes, reviews, and eventual upgrades.
Userspace does have the benefit of being *blatantly* unofficial, which is sometimes a good thing with drafts, especially if those drafts have problematic content that's being indexed by search engines.
Aside from that issue, though, a "Draft" namespace does sound like a smoother workflow, as you suggest. If you can't get a canonical namespace in, "Wikipedia:Drafts/Page[/Version]" might not be a bad naming convention.
-- Luna Santin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Luna_Santin