On 19/12/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
I'm through my to-do list for the namespace changes. They reside in the WIKIDATA branch.
I haven't looked at or run the code yet, but this sounds like a very useful feature.
== Future features ==
One thing that I was pondering when you posted about this before is whether the "special behaviour" of namespaces like "Image:", "Category:", etc could be built into some kind of hooks mechanism. I know it seems silly, but I rather like the idea of modularising the code so that existing features can be treated as extensions, because it means extensions can be written that mimic or replace those features.
In this case, people sometimes say they want to develop new namespaces for references, or category-like namespaces for blogging, etc; I guess some such things could be done through wikidata, but then again, wikidata could be attached to namespaces via those same hooks. Maybe.
Like most of my ideas, this is complete head-in-the-clouds stuff, but I thought I'd put it out to the general conciousness anyway...
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