From: "Uri Yanover" uriyan_subscribe@yahoo.com
What I meant is that the _author_ is the one who controls the way links are transformed, not wiki software.
So did I. :-)
That way noone is going to come up saying "Wikipedia made a link for me that I didn't intend to". With aliases, the author could either use the aliased link or make an escape of his own, and it's all under his control.
In some sense, but if you provide a list of #base pragma's you have to know which subject resides in which namespace if you want to determine in advance how it is going to be expanded. In Tim's proposal this is not necessary.
True, this requires a bit of thinking on behalf of the author, but it also makes up for the defficiency in ordering that was created by the elimination of subpages.
That deficiency is a feature, not a bug. What we want to avoid is that writers qualify all terms of a certain knowledge space (fictional universe, scientific field, ...) as belonging to the corrsponding name space. Not all terms in mathematics should be in the name space Mathematics, but only those that have to be because the term has also a different meaning in other fields. The same holds for article subjects from Middle Earth.
Kind regards,
-- Jan Hidders