[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:WikiProject >> Project

[JamesR]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
> wrote:
> > One problem: The major wikis are already known as "Projects".  IIRC
> > "Wikiproject" is a product of disambiguation. Perhaps a different name
> > might work.
> >
>
> ...and I'm pretty sure that "Project:" is a required alias for the
> Wikipedia namespace, so we definitely couldn't use "Project:".


Was exactly what I was going to mention. For example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:About goes to [[Wikipedia:About]].

Therefore, it's definitely a software limitation.

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JamesR
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