On 2/6/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
stvrtg wrote:
I know this has probably been beaten to death, but shouldnt Project (or Wikiproject) be a namespace?
WikiProject is a namespace on a few Wikipedias (cs, eu, fr, it, lmo, es). If the English Wikipedia wants it, we'll enable it there too. Personally I could never see the point in having a proliferation of namespaces, but it's not up to me, it's up to the community.
Frankly, I don't see the point. WikiProjects are a type of Wikipedia-internal group/process/guideline-development area/whatnot, just as everything else in the Wikipedia: namespace is; trying to split them out seems artificial. We'd wind up with, for example, the central peer review page sitting in one namespace, but the WikiProject's peer reviews in another. I can't really see any benefits here.
(As a practical point, the amount of work needed to move everything to a new namespace is staggering; it's not something to be done on a whim.)
Kirill