On 3/22/07, Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net wrote:
This idea should be discussed on the appropriate forum - namely the Wikimedia bugzilla system. This list is for discussion of technical issues relating exclusively to the Wikimedia servers - or notification of software changes which have a significant impact on the operation of a Wikimedia project.
The syntax used, however, is fairly trivial and probably not worth discussing anywhere. The technical hurdles to implementing it are the issue that prevents its adoption, and whoever resolves those at Some Point in the Future will doubtless choose some obvious URL syntax like ?category=whatever. Or /Category:Whatever, if we assume that namespaces can't contain colons (I don't think they can, that would be fairly degenerate). Or, perhaps most likely, both. It hardly matters.
I doubt there's really enough interest in this to get an implementation going, either way, at least for the moment. But who knows, it might catch a dev's fancy some day.