https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12600
--- Comment #20 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2010-11-07 02:10:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #18) > (In reply to comment #16) > > To me, the CM: is also good, but far from the common use (i.e. Ask an > > unsuspecting Commoner whats the short for Commons, and s/he'd say COM). But > > C: > > is definitely too short. > > Why is C: Too short ? > > Wikipedia(nl) uses H: and P: for Help and Portal. > Dont see the problem. I think the better example is m: for Meta (another interproject wiki). The issue with single-letter prefixes is that they're limited (only 26 Latin alphabet letters to choose from) and they have a tendency to conflict with page titles that already exist. Just looking at the English Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/C: is used in a quite a few contexts (usually to mean "Category:"). That isn't to say that this blocks this bug from being implemented, but the damage it might cause across all 700+ wikis needs to be properly measured and considered. There is a similar bug for changing Wiktionary's prefix from "wikt" to a single letter (I can't remember which). I do vaguely remember it not being implemented for similar reasons, though. It might provide valuable lessons to find and read that bug. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
