I've added some lines indicating where rules pages should go (policy, or proposed/guideline/rejected). Feel free to reword if it isn't clear. Radiant_* 09:55, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

This page appears to be out of date, as there are two red links on it - one to /Alphabetical index and another to Category:Wikipedia policy thinktank. These ought to be fixed or removed. Hairy Dude 00:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Calling the project namespace for the wikipedia project the wikipedia namespace is ambiguous because the main or article namespace of the project is also called the Wikipedia. Surely for clarity the project namespace of the wikipedia project should always be refered to by the full name of wikipedia project namespace? Cyclotron Or an alternate contraction can be found.

I agree. I was confused about this when I first started on Wikipedia. I think it would be much clearer to call the project namespace "Project" or "Wikipedia Project" or "Editspace" or something. Libcub (talk) 06:45, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I note that if you put Wikipedia:Anything and look at making a new article for it, it calls it a "new project" and it's special. Similarly if you goto mediawiki:anything and try to make a new ariticle, it prevents you from doing so with the message "This page provides interface text for the software, and is locked to prevent abuse.". I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I'm wondering how I can associate that on my own wiki by having Wikiname:blah read specially. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks. TheHYPO 22:55, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki namespace can only be edited by administrators, but non-admins can use MediaWiki talk: to make {{editprotected}} requests. If you're running your own wiki presumably you can make yourself an administrator of it, and read the manual to learn how to edit its interface text for the software. Wbm1058 (talk) 21:59, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since this page makes some actionable recomendations beyond just being a help page, it should be a guideline or policy. I've tagged it with {{proposed}}. This should also bring some extra light onto this page, since there are a few issues with it. (Linking to the pretty much dead 'Policy Thinktank', not mentioning essays and so on...) --Barberio 13:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not creating redundant pages is so obvious that we really do not need a guideline to tell us not to, which leaves us with the single actionable reccommendation of not using main projectspace for discussion. While it's debatable whether or not you should, I don't think we should have a guideline saying that, because there might be some case in which we do want it. -Amark moo! 15:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a grudge against this page, Barberio? This isn't policy, it's just information about a namespace and what belongs in it. Both tags should be removed. Ahudson 22:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am currently working n a humoruous essay, and I would like to know how to create a page in the project namespace. please help. J-stan ^Talk 20:36, 14 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first thing to check before you create a new page in project space is Wikipedia:Project namespace#Before creating a new page. Make sure that you're not reinventing the wheel. You should probably have some experience creating pages in other namespaces first, a good way to begin creating pages is to create a few good redirects, which is a lot easier than creating articles. The way I would create a project page is to just type WP:page name into the search box, to see if the page name already exists. For example, type WP:xyzzy and then hit ↵ Enter. The page doesn't exist, so at the top of the Search results page, you see the message:

Click on the red link, and voila, you are Creating Wikipedia:Xyzzy. But, once again, heed that warning to avoid redundancy. WikiProject Merge is swamped in it! Good luck, Wbm1058 (talk) 21:30, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Now don't go and create that page, I want it to remain red!

I was told this as the right place to ask for an appeal on a community ban on the Matt Sanchez article. Anyone here know? User:Bluemarine (talk) Matt Sanchez 16:04, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know you asked this question four years ago, but better late than never. Maybe my answer will help someone else. No, this isn't the page for that. But, it is the talk page for a page where you can go to look up the answer. See Wikipedia:Project namespace#Pages within project namespace. Several of those links might work, but I tried Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia. Search that for "ban"... oh, I see: Banning: see Enforcement. And under that I find Wikipedia:Appealing a block. Oh my, I see you do have quite a block log. Well, the best way to stay unblocked is to just stop doing whatever you were doing! Good luck with that, Wbm1058 (talk) 20:16, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We recently changed our hosting to Amazon Cloud and to my dismay the AWB stopped working producing the same error to the one below that was discussed back in 2006.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive_12#Custom_Project

"An error occurred while loading project information from the server. Please make sure that your internet connection works and such combination of project/language exists"

Do i need some form of check page or something?

Or is there something else?

It is running media wiki

Cheers

Reedy Boy 18:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)"

I'm running version 15.0 and have my API enabled

Any thoughts?

--Mappc (talk) 13:28, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, just one thought. Why are you asking a question about AWB here, and not at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser? Wbm1058 (talk) 20:52, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]