finiki:Project namespace

The project namespace or finiki namespace is a namespace consisting of pages with information or discussion about finiki.

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

Pages within project namespace
Project namespace includes a variety of pages with information or discussion about finiki. Project namespace includes finiki policies and guidelines, which describe best practice, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal of creating a free, reliable knowledge base. Project namespace also includes process pages, information and discussion pages, and historical pages. For more complete lists of pages in the project namespace, see: <!-- Some day we should have these
 * Category:Wiki administration - a list organized by subject
 * Category:Wiki policies contains important rules that are widely accepted, and procedures for important processes such as deletion
 * 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

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"). See Product, process, policy for details.

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

Discussion pages
Some pages are designed for discussions, such as Village pump sections.

Noticeboard pages
Some pages serve as noticeboards to draw attention to discussions taking place elsewhere, such as the centralized discussions page and various Requests for comments pages.

Essay pages
Many pages simply provide some information about Wikipedia (like this page). Some of them reflect a particular opinion, and are marked with essay template (see WP: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 Wikipedia 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 looking through the topical index to see if the material belongs at a page that already exists.

Deletion of project namespace pages

 * The usual deletion process is to post a request at miscellany for deletion to have a page deleted or to have a project terminated and its pages deleted.
 * For issues only affecting specific revisions on a page (where other page versions are fine) RevisionDelete is usually more appropriate.

With project namespace including pages with information or discussion about Wikipedia, the topics of these pages span various or somewhat unrelated matters. Miscellany for deletion (MfD) handles these miscellany deletion matters. Some of the more common project namespace deletion requests at MfD include Administrators' noticeboard pages, Article Incubator pages, Article Rescue Squadron pages, Articles for creation pages, Articles for deletion pages, Community Portal pages, Essays, List pages, Miscellany for deletion pages, Requested articles pages, Requests for adminship pages, Requests for comment pages, and Sandbox pages. For a complete listing of project namespace deletion requests at MfD, see all MfD pages with Wikipedia prefix. -->