[Wikipedia-l] No subpages. Is that your final answer?

[lsanger at nupedia.com]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> First of all, let me apologize to everyone for even having this
> conversation.  I really wasn't aware of all that had gone before,
> including the fact that Larry had already made a decision based on
> existing consensus.

And let me apologize for making a decision when there were still plenty of
people wanting to talk.

But the decision has been made.

> How about this...
>
> There seems to be agreement that we could use the new software for the
> meta-wikipedia, where we want all commentary _about_ the encyclopedia
> to go.  Why don't we start that one without subpages, and then live
> with it for a little while there.  This will give us real world
> experience.  If we find that we don't miss subpages, then when we move
> the full encyclopedia over to the new software, we can just re-align
> the subpages, and be happy with it, secure in the knowledge that we
> aren't giving up anything useful.

This is a rather good idea, I think.  I'd like to hear what others have to
say.

I personally am not at all opposed to the idea of having subpages on a
commentary wiki.  In that context, I frankly don't care.  They also help
people build their own "personal pages."  On the other hand, maybe we
should agree that the latter is actually a bad thing.  :-/

Larry