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Note that [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki]] and [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives]] use the same naming and namespace conventions as projects on Wikipedia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_Alternative_Music Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music]). Sensible conventions, but long titles! Wikipedia's product namespace is simply "Wikipedia" where ours is "FamilySearch Wiki." Such a long namespace title bloats any title incorporating that namespace. | Note that [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki]] and [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives]] use the same naming and namespace conventions as projects on Wikipedia (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_Alternative_Music Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music]). Sensible conventions, but long titles! Wikipedia's product namespace is simply "Wikipedia" where ours is "FamilySearch Wiki." Such a long namespace title bloats any title incorporating that namespace. | ||
And it may get worse: | And it may get worse: Months ago, under pressure from other managers who believe FamilySearch may have multiple wikis one day, wiki management renamed this wiki from FamilySearch Wiki to FamilySearch Research Wiki. By domino effect, that may force a change of our FamilySearch Wiki namespace to FamilySearch Research Wiki. Imagine a title '''FamilySearch Research Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives'''. Can you imagine if all the titles in the wiki's product namespace were all preceded with "FamilySearch Research Wiki:" -- wow, what long titles we'd have, Grandma! [[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]] 23:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
=== Main or other namespace? === | === Main or other namespace? === | ||