Sorry, two remarks I forgot to make.
From: "Jan Hidders" hidders@uia.ua.ac.be
That is about all. I know this looks very much like subpages on steroids (Larry is probably foaming at the mouth right now :-)) and in some sense
it
is, but I really think we need user-definable hierarchies of name spaces
and
I don't see why we cannot trust the self-organization of Wikipedians on this.
Note that an important difference with sub-pages is that a name-space inherits all the page names from it sub-name-spaces that are unambiguous.
Btw. note how elegantly Talk-pages fit into this scheme; you just add a
link
[[Talk]]. No further special arrangements necessary. On the down-side the user now has the indicate explicitly that a page has to be put in the highest name space by writing for example [[:Wikipedia_talk]] where ":" represents the root name space.
For backwards compatability you can also reverse this of course, i.e., [[:blah]] becomes local and [[blah]] global. Hmmm, sounds familiar. ... :-)
-- Jan Hidders