Dwarf Fortress Wiki talk:Wikiproject verify

Project:Wikiproject verify is a link to this article. The "Project:" namespace has been replaced by DwarfFortressWiki, so I don't think we need "wikiproject" in the page name.
Am I alone in this? Anyone else agree?
--Savok 10:50, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Well, on wikipedia, the Project: namespace is replaced with Wikipedia:, and there are lots of "Wikipedia:Wikiproject something" pages - though those are usually more related to subject areas (so for example if we had a group for maintaining all creature articles, or all skills/labors, or the FAQ) than something like this. I do agree that this shouldn't be "Wikiproject", but not for the same reason - more that it doesn't line up with what I think of a wikiproject as being than due to a problem with the term itself Random832 10:57, 11 December 2008 (EST)

It doesn't follow wikipedia's definition of a wikiproject, but that could be generalized to include things like this as well. Personally, I don't really care what names you want to attach to things (I couldn't think of a better fit). I'm more interested in creating some sort of structure that makes the things-that-need-doing more visible. VengefulDonut 13:34, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Oh, ok. I didn't know that.

Still, it does seem simpler to name this Project:Verify instead of Project:Wikiproject verify. --Savok 15:16, 11 December 2008 (EST)

There are some benefits to using namespaces that are already defined in the wiki's configuration (or natively in the code). Off the top of my head, one benefit is that searches are segregated per-namespace. DwarfFortressWiki is a defined namespace on this wiki; "Project" is not. We could consider adding a Project namespace, or renaming DwarfFortressWiki, although both of those would require Senso's efforts and might not go so smoothly. Or we could tolerate some semantic ugliness and just stick with VengefulDonut's "DwarfFortressWiki:Wikiproject" approach. We could shorten "wikiproject" to just "project", though.--Maximus 18:55, 11 December 2008 (EST)

Oh, wait a second. Project: is a code-native synonym for DwarfFortressWiki: (and is much easier to type :-) . So... Project:Verification aka DwarfFortressWiki:Verification would work for me. Aside from the community portal, we've got almost nothing else in the project space, so we could drop the whole "wikiproject" thing and not try to distinguish between site-wide project pages (community portal) and specific-project project pages.--Maximus 19:03, 11 December 2008 (EST)