[Search wiki] Close either main or Mini namespace

[Rainer Blome]

Hi!
Please see
http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Suggest_to_forbid_new_articles_in_main_namespace , the gist of which is this:

For whatever reason, some new articles intended for search engine users (mini articles), ranging from ten to fifty per day, are created in the main instead of in the Mini namespace.

I see two ways to deal with this: Either effectively prevent main pages, or make them the norm.

Disabling the creation of new pages in the main namespace would make it clearer that the main namespace is off limits for mini articles.  
The wiki pages with project content (contents of the "Search" wiki) should instead be created in a dedicated namespace, for example "search:".

Assuming that mini articles pose the majority in this wiki (if not yet, they soon will be), an alternative approach suggests itself:

Drop the "Mini:" prefix altogether.  First move all articles currently in the main namespace to "search:", then move all mini articles to the main namespace.  The search engine would then have to look for mini articles in the main namespace.  

The latter may be the simpler approach in the long run, especially for the users.  It is less confusing, and allows for easier copying of existing content from Wikipedia, especially disambiguation pages.

Rainer

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Ciao, Rainer


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