James Hare wrote:
To respond to Jimmy's e-mail,
Another problem with communication is all the pages it spans. I maintained
several user and user talk pages, but I only need two of them. Although the
normal MediaWiki software can maintain the status quo, Wikimedia's should be
designed a bit differently: the projects can have the mainspace, the portal
space, and the project space, but a central wiki (Meta, anyone?) would have
the help pages and the user/user talk pages. Surely this has been discussed
before?
Hoi,
Yes, it has. There are people, myself included who present themselves
slightly different depending on the project. For instance what is the
relevance to the Wiktionary crowd that I have written about the fish
that swim in the Dutch sweet waters?? Some information is of value never
mind the project eg the language proficiency that can be found in the
Babel templates. However, this is only of relevance to the projects
where someone is active.
I think that the term which you intend is "fresh waters", as opposed to
"salt waters". My first (unresearched) impression was that "sweet
water" would refer to run-off from farmers' fields that had been
sweetened by the activity of cattle in that field. ;-)
I agree that having separate user and user talk pages on different
projects is a necessary evil. This avoids having to guess what project
the person with a message is talking about.
Ec