Portal Wiki:Discussion: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Nalexa-1124 (talk | contribs) |
|||
| Line 203: | Line 203: | ||
[[User:Nalexa-1124|Nalexa-1124]] ([[User talk:Nalexa-1124|talk]]) 16:36, 13 January 2017 (UTC) | [[User:Nalexa-1124|Nalexa-1124]] ([[User talk:Nalexa-1124|talk]]) 16:36, 13 January 2017 (UTC) | ||
:For reference, this user is referring to [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces this documentation], and is referring to [https://github.com/EtiennePerot/mediawiki-langutils this patch] when describing past fixes for the random page behavior. <span style="background: #666666; color: #FFFFFF; padding:1px 8px; align: left; font-family:Helvecta; font-weight:bold; font-size:80%">MogDog66</span><span style="padding:0 2px; font-weight: italic; color:#7a7979; font-family:Helvecta; font-size:75%" class="plainlinks">[[User:MogDog66|u]] • [[User talk:MogDog66|t]] • [[Special:Contributions/MogDog66|c]] • [http://steamcommunity.com/id/mogdog66 s]</span> 16:48, 13 January 2017 (UTC) | :For reference, this user is referring to [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces this documentation], and is referring to [https://github.com/EtiennePerot/mediawiki-langutils this patch] when describing past fixes for the random page behavior. <span style="background: #666666; color: #FFFFFF; padding:1px 8px; align: left; font-family:Helvecta; font-weight:bold; font-size:80%">MogDog66</span><span style="padding:0 2px; font-weight: italic; color:#7a7979; font-family:Helvecta; font-size:75%" class="plainlinks">[[User:MogDog66|u]] • [[User talk:MogDog66|t]] • [[Special:Contributions/MogDog66|c]] • [http://steamcommunity.com/id/mogdog66 s]</span> 16:48, 13 January 2017 (UTC) | ||
:While a scheme like the one you describe would make total sense if we were starting a wiki from scratch, it doesn't make that much sense when considered in context of this existing wiki. The benefits it provides are negligible compared to the costs of: | |||
* Updating all the language-switching templates we have to work with it | |||
* Updating all the non-templated things that rely on this naming scheme (links, categories, redirects, [[User:WindBOT/Filters]]) | |||
* Making this wiki inconsistent with the [Team Fortress Wiki](http://wiki.tf) in terms of editing experience. The Portal Wiki was essentially spun off from the Team Fortress Wiki; the two wikis share staff and a bunch of editors used to the suffix-based language system. Breaking that would make it harder for people to contribute to both | |||
* Making this wiki's templates and [[User:WindBOT/Filters]] become unsyncable with the [Team Fortress Wiki](http://wiki.tf)'s version of them | |||
— [[User:WindPower|Wind]] 00:48, 14 January 2017 (UTC) | |||