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"Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name]" current acts as a namespace for Wikiprojects. We are interested in finding out if a) people like the idea of shortening it, and b) like one of the suggested alternatives, which are:

• Project:[Name] (not available due to technical reasons)
• Wikiproject:[Name] - (WikiProject:[Name] would automatically work, as namespaces are case-insensitive)
• Collaboration:[Name] (not possible; interferes with articles such as Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China)

1. Easier to use, type, memorize, reference.
2. Increases visibility of Projects.
3. Integrates projects,
4. Better serves as a portal for collabration.

Compromises

Use [[Project:[Name]]] as a shortcut to [[Wikipedia:[Name]]] and use Wikipedia as the project namespace (instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject).

1. Solution in search of a problem. How is "Wikiproject:RAIL" any "easier to use, type, memorize, reference" than "WP:RAIL"? If anything, it will make the interface more cumbersome and less intuitive, since the obvious abbreviation for WikiProject is WP:, but that's already taken. –  iridescent 15:19, 28 August 2010 (UTC) reply
2. See my objections here. — fetch · comms 17:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC) reply
3. Ditto. — I-20 the highway 00:20, 4 September 2010 (UTC) reply
4. Was about to say the same thing as Iridescent. Creates more of a problem than it eliminates. _EricLeb⁰¹ ( Page | Talk) 14:31, 4 September 2010 (UTC) reply
5. Agree, the trouble of moving all the pages outweighs any benefit of a shorter name.— Chris! _{c/ t} 00:44, 6 September 2010 (UTC) reply
6. Oppose changing the colour of the bikeshed.--  Forty two  11:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC) reply
7. Oppose - It will take way too much work. All it will accomplish is we wont have to type WP: before the WikiProject. -- Alpha Quadrant ( talk) 17:50, 14 September 2010 (UTC) reply

Technical objections

Proposal needs more work: I like the idea of a WikiProject namespace, but we need to figure out what the alias will be. Maybe PR? — Waterfox ( talk) 10:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC) reply

(List incomplete)

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject/Archive_1#WikiProject_namespace (2004)
• Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_AD#Wikiproject_namespace (2007)
• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council/Archive_4#WikiProject_namespace (2007)
• Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_22#Wikiproject_namespace (2008)
• This page (2010)
• Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)/Archive_8#Create_a_new_namespace_of_Project_For_WikiProjects_and_associated_subpages (2012)