On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:37 PM, stevertigo wrote:
To answer your question about the context, I was hoping to avoid using the term "userboxes." I never liked the term user: anyway, and the last thing I want to be is a part of the cesspool that's been the userbox threads.
I understand the motive, having done it myself. (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JesseW/First_version_revert_proposal )
Yes, it (the Community namespace category field) would serve the modest purpose of being a kind of universal panacea for the endless userbox thread disease.
Ok, so now we can get into how this would work (or not) - AFAIK, we already have a namespace for community pages. That is, pages used by the people writing the encyclopedia(the community) to discuss, plan, organize, etc. It's called the Wikipedia namespace. And we have a way to handle categories that are part of this namespace - they are children of Category:Wikipedia administration. We don't specifically divide the template namespace this way, although we could.
So I'm not sure what the difference would be between what I described above, and the proposed "Community" namespace. Please explain this difference further.
Thanks, Jesse Weinstein