On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:11 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3141@gmail.com wrote:
- We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that
are,
by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for making an exception for the meta namespace?
Because the Template/User namespaces aren't the same thing as the project namespace?
The Category namespace isn't the same thing as the Template or User namespaces either, but by default it's called by the same name from one wiki to the next. So, what makes the meta namespace so special?
If the argument is "The contents of the meta namespace differ from one wiki to the next; therefore the name of the meta namespace should also differ", that same argument could apply to all the other namespaces as well. The templates of enwiktionary, for example, differ from the templates of enwiki, but the namespace is called Template: on both.