[Wikipedia-l] Refactoring of Naming, Projects, etc

[Daniel Mayer]

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 12:01 pm, you wrote:
> I volunteered ages ago to try & reorganise naming conventions, and tie
> them in with things like presentation conventions, Wiki Projects and
> "basic topic" pages.
> I'm still mulling it over, and I'e got to the point where I'd like to
> start laying out ideas.
> There's no way this can be cleanly refactored overnight, so I'm thinking
> of using the Meta wiki, to first set out a page scheme and then start
> refactoring. That way "normal service" (!) won't be disturbed on the
> wikipedia: namespace.
> Any objections if I discreetly set up in a corner of MetaWikipedia?
>
> tarquin

If you are planning on doing major work then I also suggest that you do as 
Lee indicated and make a /Temp page so that everybody can monitor the process 
and help out easily (especially me since I promised to do the exact same 
thing). However, if you are doing work that will not really leave the page 
looking incomplete or messy during the process then I say we just un-protect 
the page and let you go at it (I can't remember, are your a sysop? We have so 
many now...).

Aside....

Frankly, I really don't know why we still have a metapedia -- it is mainly a 
repository of junk from the main site and has never really served its 
intended purpose of meta discussion, random chit chat about the project and 
working on projects. 

In my opinion having two separate RecentChanges for Wikipedia and Metapedia 
is why activity is comatose on the meta. But then I would be uncomfortable 
about having something like a meta namespace unless the display of meta pages 
in RecentChanges were turned off by default for users -- we are first an 
encyclopedia not a social club. 

--mav