Brion Vibber wrote:
(Technical note: currently Special: is given
numeric code -1; if we
were storing such pages in the database this would interfere with some
code that deals with non-talk vs talk pages as being
even/odd-numbered. Reassigning it to the next available positive
integer (8?) shouldn't interfere with anything.)
Why not leave cur_title as "Special:XXX", and the whole thing in article
namespace?