From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com
If we used namespaces, this would be:
[[George Washington]]
[[person:George Washington]]
Why not [[George Washington (person)]]. I thought that was the whole point of having namespaces. That reminds of something else I wanted to ask. Why do we now have two namespace concepts? (We have "X:Y" and we have "Y (X)".) I would vote for one namespace concept with one notation: X (Y).
But I think we should think really hard about the dangers of proliferating namespaces too quickly. One of the things we have to think really hard about is making sure that any transition to more comprensive semantic markup doesn't frighten and confuse people.
Oh dear. Just talking about "comprehensive semantic markup" already frightens and confuses me. :-) Sounds too much like the semantic web for me. That will never work.
-- Jan Hidders