https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57569
Ori Livneh <o...@wikimedia.org> changed:
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--- Comment #19 from Ori Livneh <o...@wikimedia.org> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> As I stated at the other bug, these are not questions that need to block
> creation of the namespace.
There are no blockers; you can have the namespace. I do think it is being
rushed, though.
I never quite understood how consensus is determined, so I may be getting this
wrong, but reading over the RFC, I think a detect a shared conviction that a
namespace by itself may not do the trick, and that some additional software
support may be required. This much is entailed by the very thought of having a
namespace in the first place, right?
Once the namespace exists, it will begin to be populated with content, and at
that point the range of things you can practically do with it are severely
limited. For example: MediaWiki provides an abstract framework for expressing
an edit and review workflow called ContentHandler
(<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ContentHandler>). Taking the default
content handler for articles (WikitextContentHandler) as a starting point and
extending it so that it provides guided page creation and peer review
interfaces seems like a potentially fruitful direction to take, and saddling it
with the additional requirement of migrating existing content is a great way to
ensure that it will never get done.
Steven Walling is well-positioned to enlist some developer time within the
Foundation for this project. If he is asking for additional time to grok the
requirements, the sensible and gracious thing to do is to grant it. If you can
railroad the patch through today, you can do it two weeks from now, too.
I would recommend making the mapping of requirements collaborative by
provisioning a MediaWiki instance in Labs, granting shell access to all
interested parties, and using it as a staging area for hashing out how the
namespace would work and how its purpose and function would be presented to
editors.
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