2017-11-01 16:40 GMT+01:00 Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas(a)gmail.com>om>:
From afar, the Opera: pages on it.ws are very close to the pages with the
template {{Éditions}} on fr.ws or the template {{Versions}} on en.ws (and
similar system elsewhere).
The main difference is having a separate namespace A second major
difference is that the templates on fr.ws and en.ws are very light while
the {{Opera}} template took data from Wikidata (but that's an independent
problem, it's possible to change the {{Éditions}} or {{Versions}} templates
to do exactly the same thing without having a specific namespace).
I'm almost convinced too, but in order to create a new namespace on a
project you have to convinced the local community. That's why I'm still
playing the Devil's advocate role and want to learn about the inconvenients
of this system
A reason why there are no different namespaces for work-, edition-,
author-, list- and other portal pages in de.ws is the ws-search. When you
are looking for "Goethe" in the (simple) search (as readers may do) on WS,
you might get to
*
https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Tafellied,_zu_Goethe%E2%80%99s_Geburtstage
but not to
*
https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
<https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe#Bibliographien>
with all the interesting stuff, if that page was in another namespace...
So there was the desition to use templates (and categories) for these
different kind of pages:
https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Seiten_zu_Autoren,_Texten,_Themen…
<https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Seiten_zu_Autoren,_Texten,_Themen,_Listen>
I think German Wikisource Community won't give this up and switch to using
multiple namespaces (besides Wikisource: and Page:namespace).
Best
Anika