On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:24 PM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Flow has a new namespace: Topic. It has an even namespace number by >> default: 2600. >> >> Talk pages till now have had odd numbers, and some scripts relied on that. >> > > And that is still the case. For example, > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Search is a Flow-enabled talk page, and > its wgNamespaceNumber is 1. > > So it's still a reasonable assumption that the talk page for a page is in > the odd namespace N+1. > Now the topics that appear on every Flow board page are in this special > Topic: namespace and that is not odd but 2600. But this is not the talk > namespace for the regular pages in namespace 2599, it's a specialized > namespace like Graph or Worfklow. A Flow topic like > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Savgw0ltqlin3m69 is not the talk page > of anything. > > I don't think there's a technical difficulty in making NS_TOPIC odd, but > it's implying things that aren't so and I'm not sure what the win is.
See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces (it might be related because once we have more than a single namespace associated to a given namespace, the parity of its ID might not be that much relevant anymore...) Helder _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
