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RE: [Wikitech-l] the problem with languages being separate from namespaces

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Poor, Edmund W

9 Dec 2002 9 Dec '02

6:33 a.m.

We can't abolish the colon, because then [[Magic: the Gathering]] couldn't have a properly name article.

Ed Poor

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Jonathan Walther

9 Dec 9 Dec

6:28 a.m.

New subject: the problem with languages being separate from namespaces

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:33:05AM -0500, Poor, Edmund W wrote:

We can't abolish the colon, because then [[Magic: the Gathering]] couldn't have a properly name article.

Can we have an EBNF grammar for a Wiki link then, that includes namespaces, languages, and external Wikis? How do you handle a language specifier for an external Wiki? Ignore it?

Jonathan

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