[Wikipedia-l] colons

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 09:56 AM 2/25/02 -0600, kband wrote:
> >
> > From: <kband at www.llamacom.com>
> > >
> > > Thus instead of the ":" being a reserved character anywhere in a
> > > title, only "user:", "talk:", "wikipedia:" etc. need to be
> > > reserved. Any other uses of colons should be fine. This will let us
> > > have entries for books with standard formatting of the subtitle (e.g.,
> > > "The Muggles: A Tale of Woe") or other natural uses of the colon.
> >
> > There is a simpeler solution. The actual contents of Wikipedia get the
> > namespace "content:". If everything is prefixed with a namespace then the
> > first colon is always the end of the namespace.
> >
>That's perfect.

Would this require us to explicitly put "content:" in front of every link?

If so, I doubt it would work--people would forget, because it's not intuitive.

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Vicki Rosenzweig
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