On Wednesday 23 December 2009 06:03:38 Frank Sundermeyer wrote: ...
However, there are two other main differences: * a regular search will _not_ find any pages outside of the main namespace, because the default search is limited to the main namespace * Special:AllPages by default only displays pages from the main namespace. You can select other namespaces to display, but only one at a time. Displaying pages from all namespaces is not possible
* Extensions can be enabled per name space. I'm not sure that all extensions allow this, but few that were tested here can be enabled per namespace. The consequence is that we can use only those that make sense in particular activity. ...
* Having read the above, it IMHO should be clear that it does not make sense, to divide the content into different namespaces such as developer, news, etc. Nor does it make sense to use the existing SDB namespace in teh future.
Dividing to namespaces should be function of particular activity needs for: * separation from default search that should serve wiki visitors * need to limit search only to subdomain of openSUSE information space * functionality provided by extensions and native MediaWiki tools When I'm done with transition table I'll be back to the list of activities. I have some items, but no defined properties, so I can't propose any separation that is based on more then a feeling.
* Since the default namespaces cannot be deleted we should utilize them before introducing new namespaces - e.g. "Help" for editing instructions, describing extensions, or openSUSE (aka Meta) for guidelines, etc.
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* We do not want people searching for an article to be pointed to a portal page rather than to the article itself. Therefore I would suggest to put them into a to be created namespace Portal
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* Apart from "Portal" I would not add any other namespaces, but rather delete the custom ones we now have /howtos, faqs, SDB, SDB talk
+1 How many to add depends on what functionality we want to achieve. For some activities we can be better off with completely separate server, like long time announced babel.opensuse.org for collection of translations. -- Regards Rajko, openSUSE Wiki Team: http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team People of openSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/About -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org