[Commons-l] Killing the main namespace?

[Bryan Tong Minh]

What are you meaning with "reserving the main namespace for main
pages"? Do you mean pages that currently reside in the Commons
namespace?

Perhaps somebody can run a script through the main namespace that
filters out all pages that do not contain images?

Bryan

On 1/29/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/01/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see a lot of misplaced pages, spam, and utter insanity appear in the
> > main namespace on commons.  There is also a lot of confusion about how
> > the main namespace should be used.
> >
> > What do you think of the idea of moving all the galleries to a
> > gallery: namespace, then reserving the main namespace for main pages
> > and pretty much nothing else. After that point we could prevent main
> > namespace page creation and make the edit page give a nice "You are
> > confused, here is how you find help" message.
> >
> > The work it would take to accomplish this could be completely
> > automated, although some inter project cooperation would be required
> > to fix gallery linking templates and the like.
> >
> > I see a lot of potential to reduce confusion, and not a lot of real
> > downsides. So I must be missing something. Thoughts?
>
> It seems unnecessary to me. My feeling is that our mainspace spam is
> only overly visible due to the facts that (a) we allow anon editors to
> start articles (and I hope we continue to), and (b) we have very few
> Special:Newpages patrollers (I have a look from time to time, I know
> Herbythyme has been doing quite a lot lately).
>
> I think changing the main namespace tab name to 'gallery' has been a
> great change. What makes you say that "There is also a lot of
> confusion about how
> > the main namespace should be used"?
>
> Perhaps all we need is more admins deleting namespace crud. I delete
> on sight 99%  of anything that is only text. Even if it's in another
> language. A lot of them look like misplaced articles or promo bios.
>
> regards,
> Brianna
> user:pfctdayelise
>
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