Board Thread:Roblox Wiki Talk/@comment-4812386-20130305202646

This wiki has a lot of pages about catalog items (places, gear, hats, packages, etc), about players and about places. In fact, these pages are most of the wiki's content. They are not, however, like most other pages, informational pages. They are distinct from tutorials and from pages that give information on specific features. Because of that, and because of their outrageous number, they should be put in a separate namespace.

It is only possible to add new namespaces to someone with server access, which is why it can only be done by the Wikia staff. Each wiki can ask for up to three custom namespaces, because of the maintenance time required to add a new namespace.

I am proposing that we add a new content namespace called 'Item'. It should be visible in search results and the talk namespace should be "Item talk". Furthermore, it shouldn't have subpages, because we don't need to have subpages for item pages.

Since the help page on custom namespaces suggests that we request for many namespaces at once rather than requesting for each of them separately, I suggest that we also request a namespace called "API", for documentation of ROBLOX's API. This allows us to keep it separate from the main content as well and makes the wiki more organised. There are already many API documentation pages right now and there will probably be more which will be added in the future due to the recent creation of a documentation system for the wiki.

Update: as described below, an improved suggestion (inspired by Quenty's post) would be to ask for three namespaces and clearly distinguish the community and the catalog items. The exact details are described in the following table: