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, 12 September 2020→The Howto namespace: Copied part of discussion from "http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Template_talk:Autoflight_Navigation&oldid=127513#Automatic categorization seem broken"
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: [[User:Bugman|Bugman]] ([[User talk:Bugman|talk]]) 06:14, 11 September 2020 (EDT) | : [[User:Bugman|Bugman]] ([[User talk:Bugman|talk]]) 06:14, 11 September 2020 (EDT) | ||
== The Howto namespace == | |||
: ''Copied here from [[Template talk:Autoflight Navigation]].'' | |||
To be honest, from the start I have considered the Howto namespace to be an abomination. There is absolutely no need for it, as one could simply have articles in the main namespace with a Howto: prefix (IIRC they call this "user administered namespaces" or "pseudo namespaces" on Wikipedia). To not have to type the prefix, one could simply create redirects. Creating a separate Howto namespace have caused issues in the past, like that the search function per default only looks for articles in the Main namespace. It is not entirely unlikely that what we see here might be some configuration issue as well. | |||
Sorry for the rant. And thanks again. | |||
—[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 06:29, 11 September 2020 (EDT) | |||
: I wouldn't call that a rant. It would be better on [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump]] though. To me 'Howto' here is simply a categorisation. Why is that categorisation even needed in the page title? I never liked this namespace, specifically because the default search misses it, and there is a significant grey area of what you would categorise as a 'howto' or not. I think it would be better managed with a basic {{tl|howto}} template at the start of each of these articles which automatically adds [[:Category:Howto]]. If you take your discussion above over to the village pump, I'll copy this over there as well. | |||
: [[User:Bugman|Bugman]] ([[User talk:Bugman|talk]]) 07:56, 11 September 2020 (EDT) | |||