I've been looking at a way to make Mediawiki (or is it wikimedia?)
effectively create a few namespaces, for a few different departments
within my intranet. Doing this would let us make a few different pages
called something like "faq". At first, I thought namespaces would be
the perfect solution, but now, I'm thinking that doing some kind of
implicit name mangling might be a better solution. What I mean by this
is that if you're on a page called, say, "Foo.Bar.SomePage", and you
link to [[Blah]], I'd perhaps augment the link indexing to first search
for [[Foo.Bar.Blah]], then [[Foo.Blah]], and then finally just plain
[[Blah]]. Something like [[::Blah]] would let you pick names from the
topmost hierarchy.
Have there been any discussions about this before? Any opinions /
pointers would be welcome.
thanks all!
-Nick