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