On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Remember the dot rememberthedot@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
Comments from a technical perspective would be appreciated at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Proposal:_Mo...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Proposal:_Move_main_page_to_Wikipedia_namespace
I really don't know why the main page was put in the article namespace in the first place - if a developer could at least drop by to clarify that it would be appreciated. I don't know exactly where the developers stand on this, but I would think that as developers you would be in a better position to understand what the appropriate thing to do is.
I don't see what the developers have to do with it, it's purely a community choice. The second-largest Wikipedia, the German one, already has such a change done. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hauptseite I even know of some wikis that have it in the Portal namespace... it really doesn't make a different where the page is from a developmental standpoint.