[Wikipedia-l] colons

[Jan Hidders]

From: "Jan Hidders" <hidders at uia.ua.ac.be>
> From: <kband at www.llamacom.com>
> >
> >
> > Note also that if the change were turned on, all current links would
> > need to be automagically changed.
>
> No, it wouldn't. I've explained this a couple of postings ago. Because we
> would turn the switch that redirects links in a namespace that have no
> specified namespace to the same namspace. We only need to change the page
> titles and that can be done with a single SQL statement.

Hold it, that's not completely true. The links from non-content namspaces to
the content namspace would indeed be broken. But that can be remedied with a
PHP script that replaces these links.

-- Jan Hidders