Since you complained that no-one responded substantively to your proposal; here's such a response, I hope.
The proposal seems to leave out the most important part - What Would We Use A "Community namespace" for? It seems like this should be at least suggested, in a proposal suggesting creating one... It claims "three usages", but none of them are actually uses - they are rebuttals to objections. What are we to *use* it for?
On Feb 19, 2006, at 10:42 AM, stevertigo wrote:
There are three usages for a Community namespace:
- a wiki namespace would be too redundant with the Wikipedia namespace
This seems to a rebuttal to an objection to making a new namespace called "Wiki:" - I've never heard anyone suggest this, so I'm not sure why it's being rebutted.
- a template namespace would also be redundant since most community
templates can be kept as subpages to a wikipedia userbox template.
What template namespace? The current namespace called "Template" has obvious use - it's the way to have templates that don't have a namespace in front of them. Again, I can't really see what this has to do with the proposal - I thought this was about a new namespace called "Community", what does this have to do with templates?
- a category namespace would separate the use of the category
namespace for content, while still allowing for quick access to particular subpage templates
Huh? Wait, now the proposal is to create a category namespace(other than the one we already have)? I thought it was to create a namespace called "Community" (for what, it is never said). Where is this category stuff coming from?
If I were to speculate, I would think this had to something to do with Userboxes, but due to the complete lack of any statements about what this "Community" namespace would be used for, I can't really tell what.
Jesse Weinstein