On 11-09-22 01:13 AM, Michael Allan wrote:
Hello to all,
I'm posting to request help with a conflict in namespace registration:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_default_namespaces?oldid=430890
Wiki admins are looking for a safe range of namespaces to use for
custom, site-specific purposes. A little over a year ago, we floated
the range 500-599 on the registration talk page. There were no
objections, so, a couple of months ago we reserved the range and
amended the manual. You can see the discussion in section 4:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Extension_namespace_registration?oldid=4…
It turns out that an extension had already been using that range.
Apparently the developer forgot to register it (see section 5, above).
I guess he spoke to someone else, because just yesterday:
* The namespace registration system was replaced with a "default"
system and the page was moved:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_default_namespaces
* The range 500-599 is no longer marked as reserved in the same
manner as the extensions are marked.
* A Liquid Threads extension was enabled on the talk page. (I
mention this because it fails on my Firefox 3.6, so I can't use
the talk page anymore.)
I guess the issue isn't open for discussion there, anyway. Please
someone else take a thought for the needs of the admins, and:
1. Pick a range to reserve for site-specific use. A whole block of
100 would be ideal, if that's possible.
2. Clearly mark the range as reserved, in the same manner as the
extension ranges are marked. For example:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_default_namespaces?oldid=430890#Sit…
3. Update the manual to reflect these changes:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces
The extension developer (the one who forgot to register his namespace)
says this is a "silly" request, but I think it's quite reasonable.
PS - Could someone also add a link to this thread from the talk page?
I am no longer able to post there.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Extension_default_namespaces Please include
wikitech-l in this discussion. Not every developer
watches mediawiki-l because it's more of a help list, wikitech-l is our
mailing list for development discussion.
Jack is not the author of the BlogPage extension. BlogPage is an
extension developed for ArmchairGM, Jack has kindly been porting
ArmchairGM and Wikia built extensions to be installable in normal
MediaWiki. Naturally as he recently ported the BlogPage code that was in
an external code repo and put it in our code repo for everyone to use,
he went and responsibly added the namespaces that the extension has been
using since it was developed (presumably sometime back in 2007) to that
page so people would know.
There were no 'objections' because practically no-one even knew that
discussion existed. That's like walking into a forest, shouting out "I
am now king of North America", then walking back into a city and
asserting that because no-one objected you're now king.
ArmchairGM was founded in 2005, bought by Wikia in 2006, and their code
was released in early-mid 2008. That page on
MW.org however never
existed before mid-2008. So not only is the concept of forcing 3rd party
companies to abide by and add information to a wiki page we have on
MW.org ridiculous, that page never even existed when BlogPage was developed.
The sentiment that the site-specific reservation added is "silly" seams
to be shared by Jack, ^demon, and me at the least. For the record, all
three of us are core developers.
That page does NOT list "reservations" or "registrations". It is
nothing
but a helpful informational page that lists default namespaces currently
used by existing extensions and other known practices. The only purpose
being so that developers of new extensions who want to try and avoid
conflicting with namespaces other people may already be using can do so
by avoiding any area of namespace numbers that people are already using.
The page itself even lists two extensions using 600-601.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]