[Wikipedia-l] colons

[Jan Hidders]

From: <kband at www.llamacom.com>
> > From: <kband at www.llamacom.com>
> > >
> > > This is pretty wikitech, but e.g. on a user page, say there's a
> > > link to [[mind control]]. I don't want that to default to
> > > [[user:mind control]].
> >
> > Ah, ok. That might be a good point, although I myself wouldn't mind it.
The
> > other side of the coin is that I now have to type [[user:Jan
> > Hidders/Sandbox]] instead of [[Jan Hidders/Sandbox]].
>
> But you wouldn't have to do that if subpage functionality were turned
> on for the user pages. Then all you'd have to type is [[/Sandbox]].

True. But if I'm thinking of future namespaces such as "stable" I'd prefer a
consistent behaviour over all namespaces. It is in my experience important
that the behaviour of the system is governed by a few clear and simple rules
with as little exceptions as possible. It not only makes it easier to build
a correct implementation, but also makes it easier to explain to the user.

> There's no need to keep users from conflicting with themselves; it's
> just a matter of fixing the way timestamping is handled. It shouldn't
> be browserside.

Both the begin-time and the commit-time of the edit are determined
server-side at the moment. As I said, changing the behaviour would probably
mean that a user never conflicts with him or herself.

-- Jan Hidders