On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Platonides<[email protected]> wrote: > Special page names are better in the sense that you know what it is > offhand, but i'm not sure if such search is still acceptable.
Why not? I can't think of any problems. > I don't think it'd get too much support. Maybe, but substantive objections would be useful. > You would need to deal with the parser, for linking to non-ns0 > namespaces. I'd prefer not to add a new complexity there. It has nothing to do with the parser. When the parser finds a link, it just passes it off to a Title method. As far as I can think (without having actually tried it), it would be a fairly small change. >>> It's uncomfortable browsing to xy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:something, >>> then moving to check it on yx.wikpedia, and having to go back to retype >>> the pagename because "Spécialis:somethingelese doesn't exist". >>> Having canonical pagenames also used to be helpful when browsing a wiki >>> on a foreign language to determine which link lead to eg. the >>> contributions of a user, by hovering the different options (now you will >>> need to change to ?uselang=). >> >> This should work fine with a global language preference, shouldn't it? > > Only for the later usecase. Why doesn't it work for the first use case? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
