"Rowan Collins" <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com>
wrote in message news:9f02ca4c0512210450o9647c30s@mail.gmail.com...
On 19/12/05, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
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One thing that I was pondering when you posted about
this before is
whether the "special behaviour" of namespaces like "Image:",
"Category:", etc could be built into some kind of hooks mechanism. I
know it seems silly, but I rather like the idea of modularising the
code so that existing features can be treated as extensions, because
it means extensions can be written that mimic or replace those
features.
This would also likely provide for possible optimisation: modules could
simply be replaced in one swell foop.
I imagine that progression towards PHP 5 would make this desirable too,
since ISTR there's much more object-oriented facilities in that.
In this case, people sometimes say they want to
develop new namespaces
for references, or category-like namespaces for blogging, etc; I guess
some such things could be done through wikidata, but then again,
wikidata could be attached to namespaces via those same hooks. Maybe.
ObAOL: me, too!!!
This would make it possible, maybe, to have separate "category" namespaces
for self-referential project-related stuff, to placate the purists who say
we're cluttering up the airwaves.
Like most of my ideas, this is complete
head-in-the-clouds stuff, but
I thought I'd put it out to the general conciousness anyway...
I'm conscious? I suppose that would explain all the pretty colours :-)
--
Phil
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