(CC'd to wikitech-l) Guillaume Blanchard wrote: > Can we have a [[Wikipedia:Preferences]] page that will be the header of

> [[Special:Preferences]] page ? (like [[Wikipedia:RecentChanges]] and > [[Special:RecentChanges]]). > In fact it may be very cool if all [[Special:xxx]] started with an

Tim Starling's been working on some experimental code whereby various additional things can be made like this. Another possibility is to make [[Special:xxx]] just appear a little more like a normal page; that is, there would be an "edit this page" link by which you can edit the header text. So instead of a separate [[Wikipedia:Recentchanges]] to find and maintain, you'd just go to [[Special:Recentchanges]] and hit edit in the usual fashion. A [[Special talk:xxx]] namespace to go with it would be useful too. (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.) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

(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.)

Brion Vibber wrote: Why not leave cur_title as "Special:XXX", and the whole thing in article namespace?