On 06/02/07, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/6/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
As Kirill Lokshin noted, Project is taken already. You can't have it.
Ah, but you must mean "the community cant have it" ;)
I had thought Kirill was making some kind of epistemological point about "functional equivalency" - ie. semantics not syntax - as you apparently refer.
Since you raised the point ... the question that comes to mind is... why?
Most MediaWiki installations are used for non-Wikipedia purposes; you need a good default name for the "project namespace", and "Project:" is as good as any. Effectively, "Wikipedia:" is just the local renaming for "Project:" in the same way that de.wikipedia (to pick a random example) has a local renaming of "User:" as "Benutzer:"
Try looking at [[Project:Help desk]] - it treats it identically to [[Wikipedia:Help desk]]. This sort of trick is very useful on mediawiki installations where you don't know the language, incidentally - "User:XXX" and "User talk:XXX" will always get you where you want to go.