[Foundation-l] Re : Where we are headed

[Ray Saintonge]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:

>James Hare wrote:
>  
>
>>To respond to Jimmy's e-mail,
>>
>>Another problem with communication is all the pages it spans. I maintained
>>several user and user talk pages, but I only need two of them. Although the
>>normal MediaWiki software can maintain the status quo, Wikimedia's should be
>>designed a bit differently: the projects can have the mainspace, the portal
>>space, and the project space, but a central wiki (Meta, anyone?) would have
>>the help pages and the user/user talk pages. Surely this has been discussed
>>before? 
>>    
>>
>Hoi,
>Yes, it has. There are people, myself included who present themselves 
>slightly different depending on the project. For instance what is the 
>relevance to the Wiktionary crowd that I have written about the fish 
>that swim in the Dutch sweet waters?? Some information is of value never 
>mind the project eg the language proficiency that can be found in the 
>Babel templates. However, this is only of relevance to the projects 
>where someone is active.
>
I think that the term which you intend is "fresh waters", as opposed to 
"salt waters".  My first (unresearched) impression was that "sweet 
water" would refer to run-off from farmers' fields that had been 
sweetened by the activity of cattle in that field. ;-)

I agree that having separate user and user talk pages on different 
projects is a necessary evil.  This avoids having to guess what project 
the person with a message is talking about.

Ec