[Wikipedia-l] Personal Pages

Sat Nov 10 21:29:17 UTC 2001

I think we can just leave our personal pages on the main wikipedia for
now.  As for me, I'm going to move my essays out, and turn my main
wikipedia page into a real profile and "scratch space" for people to
talk to me about pages I'm working on, etc.

Stephen Gilbert wrote:

> I'm not sure what the status is on personal Wikipedian pages. I know that
> we're moving personal essays to meta.wikipedia.com, but what about the
> pages themselves? Are we keeping them? If so, where will they be located?
> 
> Personally, I would like to see them stay on Wikipedia itself, in the user:
> namespace. However, I think the pages should only be used to provide an
> introduction, to exchange messages, and for encyclopedia writing purposes
> (to do lists, contribution lists, etc). Personal essays and the like should
> go on MetaWikipedia. Anything not related to Wikipedia would go elsewhere,
> like a personal Geocities page.
> 
> -- Stephen Gilbert
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