On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Platonides<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Special page names are better in the sense that you
know what it is
offhand, but i'm not sure if such search is still acceptable.
Why not? I can't think of any problems.
I don't think it'd get too much support.
Maybe, but substantive objections would be useful.
You would need to deal with the parser, for linking to
non-ns0
namespaces. I'd prefer not to add a new complexity there.
It has nothing to do with the parser. When the parser finds a link,
it just passes it off to a Title method. As far as I can think
(without having actually tried it), it would be a fairly small change.
It's uncomfortable browsing to
xy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:something,
then moving to check it on yx.wikpedia, and having to go back to retype
the pagename because "Spécialis:somethingelese doesn't exist".
Having canonical pagenames also used to be helpful when browsing a wiki
on a foreign language to determine which link lead to eg. the
contributions of a user, by hovering the different options (now you will
need to change to ?uselang=).
This should work fine with a global language preference, shouldn't it?
Only for the later usecase.
Why doesn't it work for the first use case?