Hello all,
Comments from a technical perspective would be appreciated at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Proposal:_Mo...
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.