On 2/6/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikienl@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/6/07, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
(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.)
Sysadmins could probably be persuaded to mass-move all Wikipedia:WikiProject X to WikiProject:X via maintenance script. Or a bot could do it.
Yah, but the actual page moves are the trivial part. It's cleaning up everything else (templates, instructions, boilerplate, etc.) that depends on pages being in a certain place that's going to be the time-consuming part. (And it's not something that can be done by a bot, either; it'll require significant work on the part of the actual WikiProjects being moved.)
Kirill