Special pages, if I understand all their features, are special why:
# they come from a live API query;
# they cannot be managed/created/edited by users;
# they have no chronology (it would be nonsense).
It.source uses many "list pages", daily updated by a bot, containing other
project-specific queries. They are "normal" pages, and their chronology is
bot useless and heavy. DynamicPageList extension could solve in part such a
useless overload of web space, but its output can't be finely tuned.
So, I imagine that it could be useful to have a "special namespace" for
"customable user-defined queries & lists", with only one special feature:
the lack of chronology stuff. I can imagine that a possible candidate for
such exotic, chronology-free pages could be Special: namespace itself;
obviously the name of user-created pages into Special: namespace should be
different from any "canonical" Special pages.
Am I mad?
Alex
