now that's a surprise -- a guy whose work I like to
reference on Wikipedia
and elsewhere shows up on, of all places, the Wikipedia tech mailing list.
Welcome, Sheldon, and thanks for your excellent work with John Stauber on
exposing the corporate PR machinery.
Tehehe, me too, actually! I was pretty impressed for wikitech-l when
Sheldon appeared. You's a pseudo-celebrity amongst radicals, Sheldon.
I recommend creating Talk namespaces for every
namespace -- if pages are
not large enough to discuss them separately, it makes no sense to separate
them in the first place.
I just thought I'd bring up something about talk pages that I've always
thought was kinda stupid. Now, I don't know how this works for the internal
code, and why you guys decided to implement talk namespaces the way you did.
Maybe there's a technical reason of some sort. But anyways...
Why isn't the talk namespace just namespace-aware? Then you'd only have one
talk namespace instead of having to create a talk namespace for every normal
namespace, and then a talk page could be automagically inherent in every
article, without having to explicitly create a talk namespace first. For
example, instead of
[[user_talk:jizzbug]]
if talk were namespace-aware, it would be much more straight forward to
allow
[[talk:user:jizzbug]]
or instead of
[[Wikipedia_talk:Copyrights]]
it'd be
[[talk:Wikipedia:Copyrights]]
I would think that this would actually make the program logic much simpler.
Am I wrong? Then what gives?
Peace out,
Derek
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