[WikiEN-l] Project as namespace

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 2/6/07, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> stvrtg wrote:
> > I know this has probably been beaten to death,
> > but shouldnt Project (or Wikiproject) be a namespace?
>
> WikiProject is a namespace on a few Wikipedias  (cs, eu, fr, it, lmo, es).
> If the English Wikipedia wants it, we'll enable it there too. Personally I
> could never see the point in having a proliferation of namespaces, but
> it's not up to me, it's up to the community.

Frankly, I don't see the point.  WikiProjects are a type of
Wikipedia-internal group/process/guideline-development area/whatnot,
just as everything else in the Wikipedia: namespace is; trying to
split them out seems artificial.  We'd wind up with, for example, the
central peer review page sitting in one namespace, but the
WikiProject's peer reviews in another.  I can't really see any
benefits here.

(As a practical point, the amount of work needed to move everything to
a new namespace is staggering; it's not something to be done on a
whim.)

Kirill