Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4904721-20130922204405/@comment-188432-20140414055342

Hi everyone!

Sorry to resurrect a dormant thread, but I wouldn't do so without news! Oh, and a compliment. So, gratitude first! Thanks very much for being an early adopter of this program. It helped us a lot to see how you guys handled the content on your Parent Page.

One of the things about being an alpha tester, though, is that a lot of changes come your way. And none has had more obvious changes than the Parent program. As you may have known, the actual page has had three or four different names since we started.

We didn't do this to confuse you.

Instead, we changed the names because of community feedback. We started with "ParentFilter", but it was quickly pointed out to us that the word "filter" had negative connotations in some languages. So we changed to the more innocuous "Page". But at that point, we were still in the MediaWiki namespace — MediaWiki:ParentPage. We got a lot of feedback that told us that this was a problem. After all, few users go to the MediaWiki namespace, ever. Requests came in that we move it to the Project namespace, under the theory that this is where most people's local rules live. So there was at least a chance that new users might be familiar with that namespace.

This made sense to us, so we changed the location to Project:ParentPage. And that's where we're stickin'. It's easy to remember — just look at that wonderfully alliterative triple-P! — and it was sensible to include community members in on the decision-making process.

However, this left us with an inadvertent mess. Depending on when you adopted, you might have an unnecessarily complex series of redirects. So what I've been doing in the last week is combing through all of our alpha test sites and deleting all references to the MediaWiki namespace.

From today, the only parent page you have on this wiki is Project:ParentPage.

More is coming on the Parent Page project in the next few weeks. So stay tuned! Be suer to leave any questions below, or on my talk page. Thanks, and thanks again for being one of our alpha testers!