Jason "Rodzilla" Rodzik wrote: Take a look through the old discussions, such as at: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_case_against_subpages http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_am_suspicious_of_subpages http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_rid_of_subpages_entirely http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_commentary_Save_the_subpages (Note that many of the links in the above pages are broken as they were moved bodily from the English-language encyclopedia wiki to the meta-discussion wiki.) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:17:21AM -0500, Jason Rodzilla Rodzik wrote: Subpages are useful for "private" things, but I don't see why the / should be any sort of special character, and I don't see what special support is needed; the current flat namespace code accomodates the subpages about as well as I would like right now. Jonathan -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: djw(a)reactor-core.org Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2

I see no reason not to include it. If people don't like it, just don't use it. It does have a useful purpose, allowing you to make pages that are under another page(such as /Changes, /Ideas, /Rants, etc...) without running into a problem where you have a page named Page_1_Rants and Page_2_Rants and so on.. --------------------------------------------------- Jason "Rodzilla" Rodzik Seriously! Owner & Director of Operations http://www.seriouszone.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Cunctator" <cunctator(a)kband.com> To: <wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Subpages people and and

well done to whoever thought of this one. I didn't get it at first -- but then it dawned on me how useful this is -- each time you click on it you get only changes you haven't seen yet. the best thing is this: when you sign off from the pedia, go to your open RC page, and drag that link up to the bookmarks bar. You now have a link to pick up exactly where you left off ready for next time you log on. cool stuff! :-)