**Author:** `swalling`
**Description:**
We need a namespace to support creating/editing new content pages in draft mode.
The most basic requirements for this namespace are:
* Pages would be prepended with Draft, e.g. "Draft:Title" until they moved in to main content namespace or deleted.
* All pages in the Draft namespace would be NOINDEXED to avoid having them confused with regular content pages by search engines (and thus also by readers).
This request originally comes from English Wikipedia, but is definitely relevant to Wikipedia in all languages. It's also potentially useful to other Wikimedia projects or MediaWiki instances, though requirements like NOINDEXing may be less relevant.
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**Version**: unspecified
**Severity**: enhancement
**URL**: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation
**See Also**:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55670
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27311
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41363
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57569
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60264
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60973