[Wikipedia-l] yet another modest proposal to address subpage-like behavior

[Jan Hidders]

From: <lcrocker at nupedia.com>
>
> > I think Tims proposal is an excellent one, but if I'm honest it
> > looks very much like subpages with a slightly different (better)
> > notation.
>
> But there are critical differences: most importantly, the article
> namespace remains semantically flat; "Foo (Bar)" is still a top-
> level article just like "Bar", and they have no pre-defined
> relationship of any kind, and no runtime features that link them
> in any way.  People won't be tempted to use them to "categorize"
> pages into hierachies.

That's true. With subpages the new user saw a link called "/blah" and in the
edit page it also said [[/blah]], which makes it very easy and tempting.

-- Jan Hidders