[Wikipedia-l] meta namespace?

Larry Sanger lsanger at nupedia.com
Sat Feb 23 01:50:11 UTC 2002


On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Magnus Manske wrote:

> Some things we should consider:
>
> - Should we re-integrate the meta.wikipedia as a "meta:" namespace?

If we can have a separate "Recent Changes" page, sounds good to me.

> - Should we then (or anyway;) enable each user to select the namespaces he
> wants to see on the Recent Changes?

That would be one way to accomplish the above!  Interesting!

> - Should we then turn the meta namespace on or off by default?

Off; on the other hand, as soon as the majority of the people who are
interested in Meta-W. turn it on, all the changes will be intruding
side-by-side with other changes, which is a bad thing, I think.

> - Should we introduce some users with a "trusted" status? So some "old
> hands" could do some maintnance, like permanently deleting obsolete pages,
> without access to the really crucial functions like direct database access.

Generally, I'm opposed to this, for reasons we've rehearsed (regarding
that cabal thing, y'know :-) ).  Unless there really is a need for this
that I'm not seeing right now.

Larry




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