Since you complained that no-one responded substantively to your
proposal; here's such a response, I hope.
The proposal seems to leave out the most important part - What Would We
Use A "Community namespace" for? It seems like this should be at least
suggested, in a proposal suggesting creating one... It claims "three
usages", but none of them are actually uses - they are rebuttals to
objections. What are we to *use* it for?
On Feb 19, 2006, at 10:42 AM, stevertigo wrote:
There are three usages for a Community namespace:
* a wiki namespace would be too redundant with the Wikipedia namespace
This seems
to a rebuttal to an objection to making a new namespace
called "Wiki:" - I've never heard anyone suggest this, so I'm not sure
why it's being rebutted.
* a template namespace would also be redundant since
most community
templates can be kept as subpages to a wikipedia userbox template.
What template
namespace? The current namespace called "Template" has
obvious use - it's the way to have templates that don't have a
namespace in front of them. Again, I can't really see what this has to
do with the proposal - I thought this was about a new namespace called
"Community", what does this have to do with templates?
* a category namespace would separate the use of the
category
namespace for content, while still allowing for quick access to
particular subpage templates
Huh? Wait, now the proposal is to create a category
namespace(other
than the one we already have)? I thought it was to create a namespace
called "Community" (for what, it is never said). Where is this
category stuff coming from?
If I were to speculate, I would think this had to something to do with
Userboxes, but due to the complete lack of any statements about what
this "Community" namespace would be used for, I can't really tell what.
Jesse Weinstein