Wikipedia:Namespace for WikiProjects
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"Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name]" current acts as a namespace for Wikiprojects. We are interested in finding out if a) people like the idea of shortening it, and b) like one of the suggested alternatives, which are:
Project:[Name](not available due to technical reasons)- Wikiproject:[Name] - (WikiProject:[Name] would automatically work, as namespaces are case-insensitive)
Collaboration:[Name](not possible; interferes with articles such as Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China)
Support
[edit]- Easier to use, type, memorize, reference.
- Increases visibility of Projects.
- Integrates projects,
- Better serves as a portal for collabration.
Compromises
[edit]Use [[Project:[Name]]] as a shortcut to [[Wikipedia:[Name]]] and use Wikipedia as the project namespace (instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject).
Objections
[edit]- Solution in search of a problem. How is "Wikiproject:RAIL" any "easier to use, type, memorize, reference" than "WP:RAIL"? If anything, it will make the interface more cumbersome and less intuitive, since the obvious abbreviation for WikiProject is WP:, but that's already taken. – iridescent 15:19, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
- See my objections here. —fetch·comms 17:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
- Ditto. —I-20the highway 00:20, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- Was about to say the same thing as Iridescent. Creates more of a problem than it eliminates. EricLeb01 (Page | Talk) 14:31, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- Agree, the trouble of moving all the pages outweighs any benefit of a shorter name.—Chris!c/t 00:44, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose changing the colour of the bikeshed.-- Forty two 11:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose - It will take way too much work. All it will accomplish is we wont have to type WP: before the WikiProject. --Alpha Quadrant (talk) 17:50, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Technical objections
[edit]Comments
[edit] Proposal needs more work: I like the idea of a WikiProject namespace, but we need to figure out what the alias will be. Maybe PR? —Waterfox (talk) 10:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Other
[edit]Previous and subsequent discussions
[edit](List incomplete)
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject/Archive_1#WikiProject_namespace (2004)
- Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_AD#Wikiproject_namespace (2007)
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council/Archive_4#WikiProject_namespace (2007)
- Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_22#Wikiproject_namespace (2008)
- This page (2010)
- Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)/Archive_8#Create_a_new_namespace_of_Project_For_WikiProjects_and_associated_subpages (2012)