On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:39:17AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
It's unclear to me what it would entail to 'make the namespace en_Talk'. The link syntax is [[Talk:Foo]] (if in the en language section) or [[en:Talk:Foo]] (fully qualified or from another section), and you're talking about a URL that is named differently. Is the 'en_' prefix just a shorthand for squishing language and namespace into one database field?
To answer your question: yes. But here is a question *I* should have asked ages ago: what constraints should be put on page titles? None whatsoever? You may not like letting namespaces be separated with a slash, but I believe most people do feel comfortable with the convention of making the language go first, and be separated with a slash.
Also, is Talk:en:Foo valid? I hope it isn't.
Can we abolish use of ':' in page titles so that it is totally reserved for languages and namespaces?
Jonathan