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Introduction

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Current Discussions

Eventually, archived discussions will go elsewhere... There just aren't any yet.

Where do FAQs go?

• In writing some of the pages - such as MATLAB - I have started wondering if the FAQs should be on the main page, in the discussion page, or if there should be a new namespace FAQ: for such a thing. In the latter case, there would thus be a MATLAB page with general information, a Talk:MATLAB page for people to discuss the article or pose questions, and a FAQ:MATLAB page that will take the questions from the Talk page that are most likely to come up again... Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. DukeEgr93 21:07, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Namespaces, Part II

• Here'a another organizational issue. I can see this site having several pages related to a particular program - for example, MATLAB - where perhaps there will be an entire page on making plots. Given that, would it make sense to have name spaces for some of the more popular programs? It would mean being able to name something as MATLAB:Plotting, for example, vs. using Plotting (MATLAB) or something like that. The advantage of a name space is that in advanced searches, you can specifically include or exclude particular namespaces; the first disadvantage that comes to mind is that typically namespaces other than the name one are not searched... DukeEgr93 21:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
  • In regards to the FAQ, I'm thinking that you go with the later case. It will be easier to expand the namespace in the long run that way.... And yes, having a specific namespace for each program would work best I think. I don't believe that you would run into an issue where when somebody searches for a specific item, such as plotting, that they will miss out on not picking up plotting items from the other programs. I think they will go for a specific item, and thus the individual namespace would work best. --Wesleybrown 04:24, 29 June 2008 (UTC) (copied here from talk page)