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

[Fred Bauder]

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]]).

As an alternative, I suggest that we continue with the mini articles as a
brief introduction to the subject and reserve the main namespace for an
intensive disambiguation of its subject, including suggestions regarding
how to use appropriate keywords to refine searches to get good results for
various possibilities. Whether our projected user base would actively use
and develop such pages remains to be seen, although I find it enjoyable.

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

Fred Bauder