User talk:RobLa

 Dear, Welcome to MediaWiki.org ! Yes, Welcome! This site is dedicated to the documentation of the MediaWiki software, the software behind many wikis, including that of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation projects.  Please, take a look at the following pages. They might prove useful to you as a newcomer here:
 * About this site
 * How does MediaWiki work?
 * Help:Editing pages
 * Help:Navigation
 * Manual:FAQ

If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and find this site a beneficial documentation of the MediaWiki software. Thanks, and regards, Kaganer 18:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

FYI
This was odd. Have any students indicated problems with that page? 99.27.201.226 17:49, 1 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Not that I'm aware of. I don't think there's anything odd there (unless there's something I'm missing).  Students probably just need a reminder to sign up -- RobLa 19:26, 1 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh wait, I see. The link is to the list of proposals, which only mentors and admins will have access to.  I'll see if I can figure out what the right place to submit a proposal is and put the right link in. -- RobLa 19:28, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Project pages for multimedia-related projects
Hi Rob. I saw you moved Project:Upload wizard to Project:Upload image wizard to "distinguish from Project:Upload media wizard". I guess you meant the Add Media Wizard for the latter. The upload wizard is not only for images. As a consequence, I have renamed Project:Upload media wizard to Project:Add Media Wizard and renamed Project:Upload image wizard back to Project:Upload wizard. We can have an IRL discussion about these projects when I get back to the office if there's any confusion about what they're about. Cheers, guillom 20:50, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Issues
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding regarding the use of the "Project" namespace, and to an extent, the scope of this wiki. I'm not really sure what needs to be done about this, but I imagine it's going to involve moving some content around (either to Meta-Wiki or to namespaces where it belongs). While it may seem superficial, content separation and organization is incredibly important.

The "Project" namespace should only be used for pages regarding the administration of this wiki. Pages about the administrators of MediaWiki.org or the deletion policy of MediaWiki.org, etc.

This wiki's scope is explained at Project:About. Some of the pages (perhaps all) relate to MediaWiki.org development, its extensions in particular. But throwing everything into the Project namespace is simply wrong and needs to be addressed. --MZMcBride 04:07, 17 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Responding since Rob is currently out on vacation: Thanks for bringing up this issue. We've discussed it but we haven't made a decision yet. Possible solutions include:
 * Taking over the Project: namespace for projects, and moving the meta-namespace to another namespace, like Wiki:
 * Moving the WMF project pages to the main namespace
 * Moving the WMF project pages to a WMF namespace
 * Moving the WMF project pages to meta-wiki.
 * My personal preference would be 2, at least as a temporary solution until a better solution is found for the medium and long term. What do you think? guillom 18:47, 17 August 2010 (UTC)