[WikiEN-l] CSD T1

Rob Church robchur at gmail.com
Mon May 15 17:39:57 UTC 2006


On 15/05/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 15/05/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 5/15/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 15 May 2006 11:44:28 +0100, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >That doens't make them official.
> > > >
> > > > It implies a degree of endorsement.
> > >
> > > To who?
> >
> > To readers and new editors, who don't know the ropes. Let's not forget that.
>
> How do readers know about namespaces?

They don't necessarily, although they could have encountered them from
another wiki running MediaWiki or wiki software which supports them,
or something similar. Your response intensifies my argument; readers
who *don't* will assume it's all part of the main site content.


Rob Church



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