DDO wiki:Project namespace

The project namespace or DDO wiki namespace is a namespace consisting of pages with information or discussion about DDO wiki. Its namespace number is four (4).

Pages in this namespace will always have the prefix DDO wiki:. They can also be reached by alias DDO: or the standard (for any site) prefix Project:.

Terminology

 * Project pages - Project pages are pages in the project and project talk namespaces.

Pages within project namespace
A main gateway for the project namespace is DDO wiki:Community portal. The Community Portal includes categorized links to the more commonly used pages related to the project. A link to the Community Portal page is available in the sidebar.

Project namespace includes a variety of pages with information or discussion about DDOwiki. Project namespace includes DDOwiki policies and guidelines, which describe best practice, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free, reliable encyclopedia. Project namespace also includes process pages, information and discussion pages, and historical pages.

Policies and guidelines

 * Category:Wikipedia policies contains important rules that are widely accepted, and procedures for important processes such as deletion; there are very few of those
 * Category:Wikipedia guidelines contains consensual rules-of-thumb that are not strict, but are considered by most Wikipedians to be useful most of the time
 * Category:Wikipedia policy thinktank is used for proposing new policies, guidelines and procedures
 * Category:Wikipedia rejected proposals lists proposals that were rejected by the community

Processes
A process is a central and organized way of doing things, generally following certain policies or guidelines (e.g. the "deletion process" proceeds in accordance with the "deletion policy").

Information and discussions
Many pages in Wikipedia namespace have nothing to do with rules, and thus do not belong in the above categories.

Noticeboard pages
Some pages serve as noticeboards to draw attention to discussions taking place elsewhere, such as the Administrators' Noticeboard page.

Essay pages
Many pages simply provide some information about DDOwiki (like this page). Some of them reflect a particular opinion, and are marked with Essay template (see DDO wiki:ESSAYS).

Historical pages
A historical page or process is one which is no longer in use, or any non-recent log of any process at all, and is kept as a record of past DDOwiki events that have a noteworthy value in being maintained as happened. A historical page can be revived to an active page by using it.

Before creating a new page
The project namespace contains many pages and a lot of information, and most Wikipedians probably have not read all of it. To make information easier to find, try to avoid creating new pages in the project namespace unnecessarily. If you want to add material, you might discover that the same thing already exists somewhere else. Before creating a new page, you should consider searching to see if the material belongs at a page that already exists.

Deletion of project namespace pages

 * The usual deletion process is to place a Delete template at the top of the page to be deleted and start a discussion of why you think it should be deleted on its talk page.
 * For issues only affecting specific revisions on a page (where other page versions are fine) please contact any one of our s to have the revision deleted.