On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
To me disambiguation seems like a common problem of wikis and thus should be a core feature.
On a wiki about people, people share the same name On a wiki about cities, cities share the same name etc etc you get the idea.
Agreed. Also, it only makes sense for mediawiki to natively provide proper support for disambiguations, the same way there is support for redirects.
Furthermore, I'd like to underline what Ryan said in his original message, since several people seem to be ignoring it, and using "code bloat" as an argument for using an extension:
"The code is pretty clean and lightweight, so it wouldn't increase the footprint of core MediaWiki (it would actually decrease the existing footprint slightly since it replaces more hacky existing core code). So * core bloat isn't really an issue*."