[Search wiki] Mini Aricles and Use of the Main Namespace

[Jimmy Wales]

Fred Bauder wrote:
> As has been noted, links within mini articles to other mini articles are
> awkward. Using the main namespace for mini articles would make internal
> linking  more straightforward. There is also the question of what the
> content of mini articles ought to be. One possibility is brief articles
> about the word or term, a sort of mini Wikipedia article. Another is
> adding significant material about disambiguation of the term. Either
> alternative could occur in the mini or main namespace. If the mini
> namespace is used in one of those ways, the question remains of what the
> main namespace is is used for. I have tentatively assumed the search
> namespace is for policy, the help namespace is for help. If you are
> confused, the main namespace is an article with nothing in front of it
> ([[Apple]] rather than [[Mini:Apple]]).

I have been in remote India with minimal net access for a few days so I 
might be way behind the times, but I agree with Fred completely.  The 
mini articles need to be moved to the main namespace precisely to 
facilitate less awkward linking.

> There are some discussions at Forum:Mini articles and at Forum:Main
> Namespace I have been so bold as to provisionally advance a policy page at
> search:Main namespace

Yay!

--Jimbo