I like that idea a lot, but I would suggest that those pages moved to such a namespace stay protected, in the same way that the MediaWiki: namespace is. If the pages are only archives, there's no reason in having to patrol them for vandalism.
--Ryan
From: "M. Creidieki Crouch" creidieki@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] Separate namespace for Deletions and other achives? To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org
Could we make a separate namespace for all of the AfD archives? Right now, [[Special:Randompage/Wikipedia]] only gives me AfD pages, and doing a search in the Wikipedia namespace is near impossible. We could call it "Deletion" and only put the AfD stuff in it, or we could call it "Archives" and put some other stuff in it (FAC, RFA). But I really think that putting the infinite cruft into a separate namespace would make some of these technical features easier to use.
-- Creidieki
On 12/10/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian) bigwiki@earthling.net wrote:
I like that idea a lot, but I would suggest that those pages moved to such a namespace stay protected, in the same way that the MediaWiki: namespace is. If the pages are only archives, there's no reason in having to patrol them for vandalism.
That sounded really good at first thought, but if the entire namespace is protected, nonadmins wouldn't be able to archive pages.
Admittedly, that would mean that people would run for admin saying, "I want to archive ---", and would probably end up slightly relaxing the standards for admins. I don't know whether that would be good or bad.
We might be able to get around this problem with some sort of an "archive this page" bot or tool, or some other hack.
But if we don't protect the namespace, I don't think that the vandalism potential is changed at all from our current position.
-- Creidieki
On 12/10/05, M. Creidieki Crouch creidieki@gmail.com wrote:
That sounded really good at first thought, but if the entire namespace is protected, nonadmins wouldn't be able to archive pages.
Maybe have the page automatically protected after the first save?