Wikipedia:Namespace for WikiProjects

"Wikipedia:WikiProject [Name]" current acts as a namespace for Wikiprojects. We are interested in finding out if a) people like the idea of shortening it, and b) like one of the suggested alternatives, which are:
 * Project:[Name] (not available due to technical reasons)
 * Wikiproject:[Name] - (WikiProject:[Name] would automatically work, as namespaces are case-insensitive)
 * Collaboration:[Name] (not possible; interferes with articles such as Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China)

Support

 * 1) Easier to use, type, memorize, reference.
 * 2) Increases visibility of Projects.
 * 3) Integrates projects,
 * 4) Better serves as a portal for collabration.

Compromises
Use Project:[Name] as a shortcut to [Name] and use Wikipedia as the project namespace (instead of Wikipedia:WikiProject).

Objections

 * 1) Solution in search of a problem. How is "Wikiproject:RAIL" any "easier to use, type, memorize, reference" than "WP:RAIL"? If anything, it will make the interface more cumbersome and less intuitive, since the obvious abbreviation for WikiProject is WP:, but that's already taken. – iride scent  15:19, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) See my objections here.  — fetch ·  comms   17:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Ditto. — I-20 the highway  00:20, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Was about to say the same thing as Iridescent. Creates more of a problem than it eliminates. Eric Leb 01 (Page &#124; Talk)  14:31, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Agree, the trouble of moving all the pages outweighs any benefit of a shorter name.— Chris! c / t 00:44, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 6) Oppose changing the colour of the bikeshed.--  Forty two  11:13, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 7) Oppose - It will take way too much work. All it will accomplish is we wont have to type WP: before the WikiProject. --Alpha Quadrant (talk) 17:50, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Comments
Proposal needs more work: I like the idea of a WikiProject namespace, but we need to figure out what the alias will be. Maybe PR? — Waterfox ( talk ) 10:26, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Previous and subsequent discussions
(List incomplete)
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject/Archive_1 (2004)
 * Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_AD (2007)
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Council/Archive_4 (2007)
 * Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_22 (2008)
 * This page (2010)
 * Village_pump_(idea_lab)/Archive_8 (2012)