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== Imposing Standards for Namespaces == Yeah--a recurring question I've had is whether we shouldn't try to impose some structure on what is presented in mainspace, what in project space (i.e. with the MEpedia prefix), help space, etc. I realize it's a big task and not a necessarily top priority all things considered--but on the other hand, the longer we wait, the tougher it will be to ever do so. As of right now there are 2500 pages. It will only get more challenging from here, as far as fixing all the links affected if we move a lot of pages. But I do think that kind of straightening up culd make a big difference as far as legitimizing the project. I could work on it (mainly my instinct is to move pages that are about editing MEpedia from mainspace into project space), but I'm reluctant to do so unilaterally. Thoughts, anyone? [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 17:50, 16 February 2019 (EST) :And I didn't even know there were different namespaces! I'll add a brief sentence to the Contribute page just to alert new users to this fact. :[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 20:07, 16 February 2019 (EST) ::To [[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] - any page name with a : in it indicates a page in a namespace, so we are writing in the '''Talk''' namespace on <nowiki >[[Talk:How to contribute]]</nowiki > at the moment (all discussion tabs links to Talk namespace pages). ::Content about ME should be in the main namespace or Portal namespace, eg <nowiki >Portal:Heart</nowiki > - the portal ones are linked to from Contents. I don't do anything on Portal except occasionally fixing links or filling in content to link to other pages. Most of the other namespaces don't have many changes to content, eg [[MEpedia:Scientific standards]] from the MEpedia namespace won't change much. I think categories are counted as a name space eg '''<nowiki >[[Category:Clinicians]]</nowiki>'''. I'm still learning to be honest. ::Some built-in links like the Help in the visual editor go to the Help namespace pages eg [[Help:IMAGE]]. There are also Template pages like [[Template:stub]] which you add to a page with curly brackets eg <nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki> or using the visual editor with Insert, Template - I'm sure you will have used some of these. To search pages in a namespace type the namespace then a colon. :: [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 08:42, 17 February 2019 (EST) :Identifying pages to be moved would be the first step. I would find it very helpful to have some kind of contents page or index for Help, MEpedia especially. Is it possible to automate this? Maybe with categorytree? :[[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 08:42, 17 February 2019 (EST) ::Oh, a category (and eventually subcats) is such a good idea. Any ideas for names? Would "MEpedia policies and guidelines" cover it? "Editing MEpedia" might be better (a list of suggested tasks is neither policy nor guideline, for instance) but that doesn't fit the typical syntax for a category... Other ideas welcome! I'll chew on it as well. [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 17:19, 17 February 2019 (EST) :::Many of the pages relating to the MEpedia project itself have now been moved into the MEpedia: namespace. Many of them have also been added to the “MEpedia guidelines” category. I have proposed renaming the “MEpedia guidelines” category to “MEpedia documentation”, since that better reflects the current usage of that category. I don’t know what remains to be done with the Help: namespace. Hope this helps. :::[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 22:58, 29 March 2019 (EDT) ::::I find myself wondering whether we might not wish to combine the Help namespace and the MEpedia namespace, mainly to save anyone from recreating the same material in the other place. Any reason not to do this, are there any Help pages that are not essentially about the project? If combined, I tend to think Help should be moved to MEpedia rather than the other way around, since all Help is about the project but not everything about the project is per se about "Help". [[User:Canele|Canele]] ([[User talk:Canele|talk]]) 23:32, 29 March 2019 (EDT)
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