Forum:Namespace and SITENAME Discussion

What should be done with the Project Namespace/SITENAME? Change it to MMKB. Change it to MMWiki. Leave it as. Should we request a Fanstuff Namespace? Yes No Currently the (Which is also the Project: Namespace) Here is The Mega Man Knowledge-base. Unfortunately this is extremely long. And because it's so long, it appears that people have avoided using it when they are supposed to. Simply put Namespaces are used in MediaWiki to help organization. The Main Namespace is used for all articles on the topic. The Image: namespace holds images and files. The Forum: Namespace holds this forum system. Every Namespace has a Talk Namespace which is used for discussion on any of the pages in the other Namespaces. The User: Namespace lets users have a place to store contact information about themselves and other things they may want to share or test. The Category: Namespace helps categorize pages. The Help: Namespace is for help pages. And finaly, the Project namespace, which has a custom name for each Wiki holds information about the project, such as About pages, pages such as the Operation Overhaul would be in there, and other Wiki specific information which aren't articles. The thing is project stuff shouldn't show up in a search, or random page view unless you tell it to. But if you don't place those type of pages into the Project Namespace then they are actually inside the Main namespace which infringes on Article space.

The Mega Man Knowledge-base Is a bit to long for a Project Namespace. I can request to have it changed to a new one. And link changing should be quite simple because people have avoided using it. I've seen that people have used MMWiki: and MMKB: as the starting of some project articles. It's possible to make our new Project Namespace/SITENAME either one of these. I'd like some responses on what you think the Project Namespace/SITENAME should be.

There's another thing I should address. We have Fanstuff: which since it's more editor oriented shouldn't show up as when someone uses the search which is for searching for actual MegaMan articles. It's actually possible for us to request a new Fanstuff: Namespace. Doing so would seperate all the current Fanstuff articles from the main namespace, and since it's a namespace seperate from the main namespace we could actually allow editors to place their fanstuff inside that namespace instead of forcing them to use their own Userspace for that.

There's just one thing I'd like to note about altering the Namespaces. Before you request a new one, or have one moved, you half to move any article with a name starting with the text of the Namespace, or else those articles will become inaccessible when the namespace changes are made.

This means that if we use MMKB then we will first half to move MMKB:FAQ and MMKB:Standards to another temporary location (e.g. MMKB-Temp:FAQ and MMKB-Temp:Standards) then after the changes we can move them back to the new location.

If MMWiki is used then MMWiki:Operation Overhaul will need the same thing done to it.

Also if we add the Fanstuff: Namespace, I'll half to move all the Fanstuff: articles to temporary locations until the change is made. But having the namespaces now is better than not. ~Dantman(talk) Mar 26, 2007 @ 23:40 (UTC)


 * Wow... while I didn't get any feedback, it looks like there were votes for it. So I guess I'll talk to the staff about getting the namespaces changed later. ~Dantman(talk) May 11, 2007 @ 19:44 (UTC)