I was surprised when Gangleri told me about it. {{ns: }} *should be* the preferred method. If you link to something/wiki/Project:Foo then whoever clicks on it will go under a redirection. People looking at the target of redirection on a chinese wiki won't expect an english word. And if such perfomance is *so* important (they're all cached, aren't they?) {{ns: substitution on the skin could be directly at php level, without {{ parsing, with str_replace() calls, which should be much faster.Yeah, it'd break the 'in order parse' and force {{ns:}} substitution to be handled the first, but i don't think it can be so bad. We already have(had) worse things. I think it's worse to be hardcoding the {{ns: }} You can always script from {{ns:Foo}} to LangFoo: but you can't do it the other way round. Platonides

Platonides wrote: [[Project:Foo|bar]] will always render with the link normalized (eg 'Wikipedia:Foo' or 'Википедија:Foo' or whatever, appropriately URL-encoded). At the moment at least, [[Project:Foo]] will *show* 'Project:Foo', just as [[foo]] *shows* 'foo' but *links* to 'Foo'. In general links in UI messages will be using descriptive link text; if they're not, they probably ought to be changed to a friendlier text form. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)