Category talk:Templates - Revision history

GregLucas at 18:17, 4 April 2012

2012-04-04T18:17:45Z

Kindahero at 11:40, 4 April 2012

2012-04-04T11:40:10Z

Kindahero at 11:39, 4 April 2012

2012-04-04T11:39:18Z

Kindahero at 11:29, 4 April 2012

2012-04-04T11:29:05Z

Kindahero at 11:27, 4 April 2012

2012-04-04T11:27:58Z

115.242.230.239: Categories or Namespace

2012-04-04T08:57:31Z

Categories or Namespace

New page

One of the things that need to be resolved is this.

* When would namespace be used? When would categories be used?
* Templates are in the namespace of their own.

It is easy to search for them. One can search for articles in a given namespace. I don't see why a separate category is needed for this?

I want the current contributors to Wikemacs to start organizing around separate namespaces rather than the current default organizing around categories.

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	:: Okay It seems we cant do that, even though we write any thing in any namespaces, all of them can only be organized through Categories. So I think we can write articles in different namespace(as I wrote above), but they all organized through categories. I could be wrong or may some one else has better Idea -- [[User:Kindahero\|Kindahero]] 14:39, 4 April 2012 (EEST)		:: Okay It seems we cant do that, even though we write any thing in any namespaces, all of them can only be organized through Categories. So I think we can write articles in different namespace(as I wrote above), but they all organized through categories. I could be wrong or may some one else has better Idea -- [[User:Kindahero\|Kindahero]] 14:39, 4 April 2012 (EEST)
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		+	I'm new to MediaWiki, but Namespaces don't appear to be designed for this kind of grouping. Categories and subcategories seem like a more appropriate organization system:
		+	* You can define a hierarchy
		+	* A page can belong to multiple categories
		+	* You get a category page that provides a nice alphabetized list of pages and subcategories.
		+	Namespaces seem like a much coarser-grained grouping. Looking at the help pages (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces) it seems like adding a real namespaces (vs. prefixing page names) requires a configuration change, and the only reason suggested to do so is "to hold content that should not be shown on the search results page". I agree things like templates and bots belong in a namespace so they aren't included in search results by default, but it still seems useful to categorize them. [[User:GregLucas\|GregLucas]] 21:17, 4 April 2012 (EEST)

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−	:: Okay It seems we cant do, even though we write any thing in any namespaces, all of them can be organized through Categories. So I think we can write articles in different namespace(as I wrote above), but they all organized through categories. I could be wrong or may some one else has better Idea -- [[User:Kindahero\|Kindahero]] 14:39, 4 April 2012 (EEST)	+	:: Okay It seems we cant do that, even though we write any thing in any namespaces, all of them can only be organized through Categories. So I think we can write articles in different namespace(as I wrote above), but they all organized through categories. I could be wrong or may some one else has better Idea -- [[User:Kindahero\|Kindahero]] 14:39, 4 April 2012 (EEST)

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		+	:: Okay It seems we cant do, even though we write any thing in any namespaces, all of them can be organized through Categories. So I think we can write articles in different namespace(as I wrote above), but they all organized through categories. I could be wrong or may some one else has better Idea -- [[User:Kindahero\|Kindahero]] 14:39, 4 April 2012 (EEST)

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 :* Tutorial -- all tutorials
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	I want the current contributors to Wikemacs to start organizing around separate namespaces rather than the current default organizing around categories.		I want the current contributors to Wikemacs to start organizing around separate namespaces rather than the current default organizing around categories.
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		+	: I agree, using different namespaces would more good. may be we can formalize which things go where.
		+	:* WikEmacs -- licence, user, and others()
		+	:* Category -- articles
		+	:* Tutorial -- all tutorials
		+	:* Help -- any help material for users
		+	: any other new spaces
		+	: -- [[User:Kindahero\|Kindahero]] 14:27, 4 April 2012 (EEST)