[Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

2014-05-03 Thread Nathan Larson
I propose that we change the installer to make Project:, rather than the wiki name, the default option for meta namespace Manual:$wgMetaNamespacename (i.e. namespace 4 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces). See bug 60168

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

2014-05-03 Thread K. Peachey
On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: 4) We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that are, by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for making an exception for the meta namespace? Because the Template/User

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

2014-05-03 Thread Nathan Larson
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:11 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2014 05:38, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote: 4) We don't have any other namespace names (User, Template, etc.) that are, by default, different from one wiki to the next; what is the logic for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open Knowledge Festival - financial aid available

2014-05-03 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/16/2014 11:33 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: http://blog.okfn.org/2014/04/09/okfestival-2014-financial-aid-programme-launches-today/ The Open Knowledge Festival is in Berlin, 15th - 17th July. Apply for travel grants by the 4th of May. Reminder: this deadline is tomorrow. --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

2014-05-03 Thread Max Semenik
This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki language, so even if you force Project down the throats of non-English users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian wikis and so on. Thus, you're attempting to disrupt MediaWiki's localizability

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change the installer to make Project: the default option for meta namespace name

2014-05-03 Thread Nathan Larson
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote: This proposal makes no sense: all these namespaces _are_ dependent on wiki language, so even if you force Project down the throats of non-English users, project talk would still be e.g. Project_ахцәажәара for Abkhazian