[Wikipedia-l] Re: Simple XML ideas

[Larry Sanger]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Mark Christensen wrote:

>
> > Why? This would keep the software and the interface simple and more
> > consistent. Look at the links to namespaces at the bottom of pages.
> > Sometimes there is none, sometimes one, sometimes two. Why is that?
> > And why on earth is the link to a discussion page called
> > a namespace? And why is there no Talk page for SpecialPages?
>
> I think constancy is not the solution, it's the problem.

I agree with this--different pages (or classes of pages) have different
functions and we need those functions really clearly indicated.

Larry