User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-188432-20120507211135

I get the general philosophy of wanting to make sure that new users get a wider range of pages to look at. In terms of most namespaces, I think this is a defensible idea. But MediaWiki? What in the world is a new user gonna be doing poking around there? When I type MediaWiki:Common.css I wanna go to MediaWiki:Common.css. Sure, I can bookmark the often-used MediaWiki pages on my own wiki, but i often explore the MediaWiki namespace on other wikis, and I'm not going to bookmark that. And I'm also not gonna fool with making a bookmark for lesser-used MW messages on my own wiki, like MediaWiki:Edittools or MediaWiki:Achievements-about-content.

MediaWiki is a namespace that's explicitly not for newbies. I think it should be positively assumed that people know what they're looking for in that namespace.