Note that "Project" and "Project talk" already work on any wiki. They are the canonical names for the namespace in question.
Namespaces have: * a localised/standard name for the local wiki (based on configuration like Wikipedia and/or localisation like Usario). * a canonical name (that is language and wiki independent, except for extra custom namespaces where the localised name becomes the canonical one, but project is not an extra custom namespace). * aliases (alternate translations or legacy names, such as "Image").
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_talk:X -> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_ discusión:X
— Krinkle
On 11 May 2014, at 16:15, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 05/04/2014 05:08 AM, Max Semenik wrote:
This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki language, so even if you force "Project" down the throats of non-English users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian wikis and so on.
I think you may be misunderstanding the proposal. I think it's proposing to use standard namespace names for the project namespace, rather than wiki-specific ones like the Wikipedia namespace.
That's not the same as not localizing the standard namespaces. For instance, Spanish Wikipedia uses the standard namespaces for e.g. User (Usario) and Category (Categoría) (that means e.g. Usario:Foo and User:Foo both work).
However, it uses Wikipedia for the meta namespace. Under this, it seems by default a new Spanish wiki would use Proyecto, with Project also working and referring to the same page.
Matt Flaschen
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