To answer your question about the context, I was
hoping to avoid using the term "userboxes." I never
liked the term user: anyway, and the last thing I want
to be is a part of the cesspool that's been the
userbox threads.
Yes, it (the Community namespace category field) would
serve the modest purpose of being a kind of universal
panacea for the endless userbox thread disease.
Steven
--- Jesse W <jessw(a)netwood.net> wrote:
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
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