Removing the User: namespace from the system
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	Mar 14 2006, 4:49 PM

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Author: wmf.amgine3691

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The User: namespace has become a massive drain on the Wikipedia project's
volunteer effort, and has server costs associated with it as well. Would it be
possible to do any of the following:

remove user pages from the system while retaining user talk pages
limit their contents to a reasonable amount of unparsed text only, perhaps 512

characters

eliminate their use of transclusion and categories

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:09 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.

• bzimport set Reference to bz5250.

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• bzimport created this task.Mar 14 2006, 4:49 PM

Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

Is there a community supporting this request on your wiki? I think thousands of
wiki users do not want their user pages to be removed, especially Wikipedia
users! Also user categories are pretty common and accepted on many wikis; thus I
mark this bug as INVALID.

BTW: When there are no user pages, they use the top of the talk page for that
purpose, I would say.

robchur wrote:

Yessssss, let'sssssss purge them all! PURGE THEM ALL! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

This is a community policy issue. Self-policing of user pages is part of what keeps
the community together.

If they're out of control, a size limit here likely won't help much.

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