Project talk:Flat namespace

Discuss Manual:Flat namespace

Agree
User:Rogerhc wrote this page single handedly (so far at least), but I agree with it. I think people with experience of coming up with wiki structures will eventually gravitate towards these ideas, while others will try to force a heirarchical structure into wiki page names. If you use subpages or even namespaces, on the face of it this can seem like it is working well, but you have lost a crucial level of simplicity. In a very subtle way you have shot yourself in the foot. -- Harry Wood 17:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

About mediawiki.org ?
I think this page was intended to be related to structuring MediaWiki.org itself, and proposing a change perhaps. But it could work as general advice I think (then it should move to the 'Main' namespace??).

Regarding mediawiki.org I think it was a bit of a mistake to create a namespace 'Manual' on this site. The difference between what goes in Manual and what goes in Main is not clear enough, and the most helpful (but messy) thing to do in many cases will be to create redirect from one to the other. Would've been better to build the manual in the main namespace ...but it's too late to fix it now really.

-- Harry Wood 17:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)


 * No. It was not a mistake.  If it is not clear enough to newcomers then that is something we need to address, but to people who have been here for a while it is, I think, quite clear.  I acknowledge that part of the confusion is that no-one has yet made a concerted effort to move rogue pages, e.g. Project:Support desk, Help:User rights etc. --HappyDog 13:30, 18 February 2008 (UTC)