[WikiEN-l] Project as namespace

[ikiroid]

On 2/6/07, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/6/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikienl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/6/07, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.)
> >
> > Er, isn't this what redirects are for?
>
> They're not going to help when people keep on creating stuff at
> [[Wikipedia:WikiProject ...]] because that's what's being generated by
> templates or specified in instructions.
>
> Kirill
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Well, while we're on the topic of namespace, why can't the reference desk
be in a different namespace? I doesn't really pertain to wikipedia, so the
Help: section or a new mainspace would be a better location.