The Special: doesn't really count, because it refers to pages that are dynamically generated, not to something that is article-like.
The Wikipedia: namespace; is it a namespace only because changes to articles in it don't show up in Recent Changes?
Obviously the User: and User_talk: and Talk: and Wikipedia_talk and Special_talk namespaces although I'm not sure those things really need to be separate namespaces.
Jonathan
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 07:47, Jonathan Walther wrote:
The Special: doesn't really count, because it refers to pages that are dynamically generated, not to something that is article-like.
The Wikipedia: namespace; is it a namespace only because changes to articles in it don't show up in Recent Changes?
They show up in recentchanges along with everything else. They _don't_ show in the article count, the "new articles" list, etc.
Obviously the User: and User_talk: and Talk: and Wikipedia_talk and Special_talk namespaces although I'm not sure those things really need to be separate namespaces.
To go over the list again by number and English name: 0 - '' (encyclopedia articles) 1 - 'Talk' (discussion about the above) 2 - 'User' (user pages; names coincide with user names -- but there are also crudely made slash-subpages in user namespace) 3 - 'User talk' (discussion about the above) 4 - 'Wikipedia' (general meta pages that serve as information and documentation for readers and editors) 5 - 'Wikipedia talk' (discussion about the above) 6 - 'Image' (descriptions of uploaded files; names coincide with uploaded file names) 7 - 'Image talk' (discussion about uploaded files)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:38:56AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
2 - 'User' (user pages; names coincide with user names -- but there are also crudely made slash-subpages in user namespace)
User's subpages are very useful. Can we add some support for them ? For example by automatically adding links from User:X to all User:X/* and link from every User:X/* to User:X ?
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
User's subpages are very useful. Can we add some support for them ? For example by automatically adding links from User:X to all User:X/* and link from every User:X/* to User:X ?
I don't see the need for these. My user subpages are for my own personal use, and would be unlikely to be of any interest to anybody else. (Every edit that I make is marked minor and labelled "Ignore.".) It would be pointless and confusing to advertise them on my user page. If I create a user subpage that I do want to advertise to others, then I'll include the link (and a backlink) myself.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't remember about them when writing code that reacts to user pages. Supporting them in the sense that the codes realise that [[User:Joe/junk]] belongs to a user named "Joe", not to a user named "Joe/junk", is good.
Speaking of which support, do we allow slashes in user names? Probably we shouldn't, to avoid conflicts.
-- Toby
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