On Apr 6, 2004, at 4:50 PM, Imran Ghory wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Timwi wrote:
Imran Ghory wrote:
I'd like to propose that we break Wikipedia's Reference Desk (and wikibook's Study help desk) to they're own wiki, at the moment both are fairly unstructured.
They seem to me to be very specific things; I think a whole new Wiki would be overkill. Instead, you can implement your proposed structed as subpages. Whatever you can do on a separate Wiki, you can do in subpages under [[Wikipedia:Reference desk]].
Firstly "Wikipedia:" pages aren't supposed to be content pages and secondly the decision was made a while back not to use subpages for content pages (see [[Wikipedia:Subpages]]).
That's the point: the pages you're referring to *aren't* content pages. At least not on Wikipedia. What you seem to be proposing in a new wiki where such pages *are* considered the content. It's worth noting that this is a paradigm shift from the current system. You seem to be proposing we enlarge the "reference desk" section into something worthy of its own wiki which would reference the Wikipedia.
I like this idea. There's already a proposal at [[meta:Wiki How do I]] which is similar; take a quick look there, though there's not much to see.
If I've gotten your idea wrong, my mistake.
Peter
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