On Apr 6, 2004, at 4:50 PM, Imran Ghory wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Timwi wrote:
Imran Ghory wrote:
I'd like to propose that we break
Wikipedia's Reference Desk (and
wikibook's Study help desk) to they're own wiki, at the moment both
are
fairly unstructured.
They seem to me to be very specific things; I think a whole new Wiki
would be overkill. Instead, you can implement your proposed structed
as
subpages. Whatever you can do on a separate Wiki, you can do in
subpages
under [[Wikipedia:Reference desk]].
Firstly "Wikipedia:" pages aren't supposed to be content pages and
secondly the decision was made a while back not to use subpages for
content pages (see [[Wikipedia:Subpages]]).
That's the point: the pages you're referring to *aren't* content pages.
At
least not on Wikipedia. What you seem to be proposing in a new wiki
where such
pages *are* considered the content. It's worth noting that this is a
paradigm
shift from the current system. You seem to be proposing we enlarge the
"reference desk" section into something worthy of its own wiki which
would
reference the Wikipedia.
I like this idea. There's already a proposal at [[meta:Wiki How do I]]
which is
similar; take a quick look there, though there's not much to see.
If I've gotten your idea wrong, my mistake.
Peter
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