Last modified: 2014-09-01 23:28:59 UTC
There's been an evolutionary shift from wanting to use a lot of separate wikis to wanting to use one wiki (e.g. Meta-Wiki) and consequently do high-level content separation by namespace on this central wiki rather than dividing content at a high leve between multiple subdomains/wikis/userbases/etc. This bug tracks some of the pain points associated with this shift (i.e., reasons why a group might prefer to use a separate wiki instead of using a centralized wiki).
Other things you notably can't separate on a single wiki: search defaults, main page, sitenotice.
(In reply to comment #1) > Other things you notably can't separate on a single wiki: search defaults, main > page, sitenotice. Hmmmm. Right. What the main page is considered is most relevant to the logo and the sidebar, I think. So I guess you could implement the ability to have per-namespace sidebars and then also implement the ability to have per-namespace logos/logo destinations. Maybe. Search defaults... Special:Search is its own independent namespace. Maybe you'd want search namespace groupings or something (that are configurable more easily than the current groupings)? Can you split this out into a separate bug, please? The sitenotice can probably most easily be changed per-namespace by modifying the sitenotice extension's JavaScript to check for $wgNamespace or whatever. That's probably better than doing it server-side (for caching reasons).
Also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_place_to_work_together (for private content and ACL). (In reply to Nemo from comment #1) > Other things you notably can't separate on a single wiki: search defaults, > main page, sitenotice. Would need separate bugs.
