On 10/21/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21/10/2007, Vee <vee.be.me(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If it becomes notable, how will we get around the
name? If we put it in as
is it'll go in the Wikipedia namespace
Ha!
"Wikipedia space colon space the space missing space manual" would be
the correct bibliographic form for the name, so we can always fall
back on that :-)
Everyone's hot and bothered about this "book deal", but the big
question is why the foundation never thought of publishing a (paper)
book about Wikipedia. Or maybe the idea occurred but there was a
significant consensus that "nobody would fucking buy it".
Anyway I meant to talk about namespace collisions...
I noticed a while ago that there is a template for collisions like
that, see [[Help:A Day in the Life]] (which is actually about an
album). The link works properly when linked to as a redirect, but
topics whose proper titles start with an interwiki prefix are not so
lucky (and there are a few of them).
In theory you could work around that by going to the other site and
adding a redirect back to the (crudely approximated) title of the
article on en.wikipedia, but the people there will probably ask "what
the hell that was all about" while deleting the redirect.
—C.W.