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