Wikipedia:Namespace for WikiProjects

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"Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name]" current acts as a namespace for Wikiprojects. We are interested in finding out if a) people like the idea of shortening it, and b) like one of the suggested alternatives, which are:

~~Project:[Name]~~ (not available due to technical reasons)
Wikiproject:[Name] - (WikiProject:[Name] would automatically work, as namespaces are case-insensitive)
~~Collaboration:[Name]~~ (not possible; interferes with articles such as Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China)

Support edit

Easier to use, type, memorize, reference.
Increases visibility of Projects.
Integrates projects,
Better serves as a portal for collabration.

Compromises edit

Use [[Project:[Name]]] as a shortcut to [[Wikipedia:[Name]]] and use Wikipedia as the project namespace (instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject).

Objections edit

Solution in search of a problem. How is "Wikiproject:RAIL" any "easier to use, type, memorize, reference" than "WP:RAIL"? If anything, it will make the interface more cumbersome and less intuitive, since the obvious abbreviation for WikiProject is WP:, but that's already taken. – iridescent 15:19, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
See my objections here. —fetch ·comms 17:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ditto. —I-20 the highway 00:20, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Was about to say the same thing as Iridescent. Creates more of a problem than it eliminates. _EricLeb⁰¹ (Page | Talk) 14:31, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Agree, the trouble of moving all the pages outweighs any benefit of a shorter name.—Chris!_c/t 00:44, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose changing the colour of the bikeshed.-- Forty two 11:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - It will take way too much work. All it will accomplish is we wont have to type WP: before the WikiProject. --Alpha Quadrant (talk) 17:50, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Technical objections edit

Comments edit

Proposal needs more work: I like the idea of a WikiProject namespace, but we need to figure out what the alias will be. Maybe PR? —Waterfox (talk) 10:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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