On 2/6/07, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
Its not a matter of handicaps, its about facilitation of an annyoying problem of having two "wiki"s in the same title. The extra characters no doubt tax the servers.
So in other words - you find typing Wikipedia:WikiProject <xxx> a PITA and want to type Wikiproject:<xxx>. Not entirely an invalid point but I don't think we create namespaces for the purposes of typing convenience. The content of WikiProjects is quite validly within the definition of what the Wikipedia: namespace is supposed to be, so I don't see an issue there. We created Portal: because portals aren't really part of the encyclopedia proper but are content for the users, not for the project, so placing them in Wikipedia: didn't really work. We split Template: from MediaWiki: because templating is different from interface string localization.
It sounds like what you really need are shortcut redirects or something.
-Matt