Hi, In 1.19 a dropdown was added to Special:MovePage for selecting a namespace. This new feature doesn't disturb me personally, but a few users in the Hebrew Wikipedia complained about it, saying that it causes users confusion. I don't have numbers, but the regular followers of the move logs said that in the days since the upgrade there was a higher number of mistakes because of this new feature.
A couple of examples, with English namespace names, because the essence is the same): 1. People moved an article that they wrote from User:New-article-writer/New_article_name to Wikipedia:New_article_name, thinking that this is the way to put the article in Wikipedia. 2. People moved a sandbox page from User:Sandbox-lover/sandbox5771 to User:User:Sandbox-lover/sandbox5772. The root cause of the first example mistake is the *very* confusing name of the "Wikipedia:" namespaces. It should have been called "Community:", "Forum:", "Documentation:" or anything else, but having the same name as the project is pretty bad. The new dropdown just floats it. Any other thoughts? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
