On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jan Hidders wrote:
Why not [[George Washington (person)]]. I thought that
was the whole
point of having namespaces.
No, the SOLE point of having namespaces was to find a neat solution to
separating articles about Wikipedia, about Wikipedia contributors, and
other non-Wikipedia-articles, from the Wikipedia articles. Nothing more
fancy than that.
Oh dear. Just talking about "comprehensive
semantic markup" already
frightens and confuses me. :-) Sounds too much like the semantic web
for me. That will never work.
I totally agree here. Remember, Wikipedia is supposed to be simple and
easy to use. Not just in theory, either, but *actually* simple and easy
to use. :-) This means that we cannot expect users to learn any more
tricks than they already have to learn. This is a problem we have to work
with--it's a constraint.
Larry