On 3/22/07, Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net> wrote:
This idea should be discussed on the appropriate forum
- namely the Wikimedia
bugzilla system. This list is for discussion of technical issues relating
exclusively to the Wikimedia servers - or notification of software changes which
have a significant impact on the operation of a Wikimedia project.
The syntax used, however, is fairly trivial and probably not worth
discussing anywhere. The technical hurdles to implementing it are the
issue that prevents its adoption, and whoever resolves those at Some
Point in the Future will doubtless choose some obvious URL syntax like
?category=whatever. Or /Category:Whatever, if we assume that
namespaces can't contain colons (I don't think they can, that would be
fairly degenerate). Or, perhaps most likely, both. It hardly
matters.
I doubt there's really enough interest in this to get an
implementation going, either way, at least for the moment. But who
knows, it might catch a dev's fancy some day.