> Only the specifically recognized namespace
prefixes are treated
> as namespaces; anything else is just a regular article with a
> colon in the title.
This sounds dangerous to me, as people might
inadvertantly
"pollute" the namespace name space?
But that's just my point: an article titled "E. Coli 0157:H7" or
"2001: A Space Odyssey" does NOT create a namespace, so they
aren't polluting anything. Only the previously existing
namespaces "User", "Talk", "Wikipedia", etc., are treated
as
namespaces--everything else is just a plain old article, white
background, searchable, all that stuff.
There is a concern, I suppose, that it might limit our ability
to create real namespaces (and interwiki names) later, in that if
we decide to create, say, a "Fred" namespace, any previously
existing articles that happen to be named "Fred:..." may have to
be changed, but I think a simple convention not to use colons
for things other than titles that naturally contain them will
minimize that problem, and creating a new namespace is such a
major change anyway that having to fix a few article titles won't
be much of a problem.
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