[WikiEN-l] One-sentence explanation of pending changes

[Andrew Gray]

On 8 June 2010 21:32, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:

> I think it's configured per namespace, so one technically could use it
> for talk pages, but I believe the configuration we're planning for
> Wikipedia is just main space. Naturally, if the community clamored to
> apply it elsewhere, it wouldn't be hard to change. We'd want to think
> through the implications first, though, as we've been focused on articles.
>
> I believe redirects should work, although when I went to double-check on
> the labs site there was an odd issue that we'll look into promptly.
>
> Did you have plans for either of those? Or were you just exploring the
> possibilities?

No, I'm just wondering how quickly our 2,000 is going to get used up
with people playing with userpages ;-)

Restricting it to mainspace while we get used to it is probably a
sensible idea. I take it there'll be a central indicator somewhere of
which pages (and how many) are protected, so we don't have to discover
the limit by accident?

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- Andrew Gray
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