[Wikipedia-l] Preferences

[Guillaume Blanchard]

Yes, have a editable [[Special:xxx]] and a talk page may be very useful !

Aoineko

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From: "Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at Wikipedia.org>; <wikitech-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Preferences


> (CC'd to wikitech-l)
>
> Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
> > Can we have a [[Wikipedia:Preferences]] page that will be the header of
the
> > [[Special:Preferences]] page ? (like [[Wikipedia:RecentChanges]] and
> > [[Special:RecentChanges]]).
> > In fact it may be very cool if all [[Special:xxx]] started with an
include
> > of [[Wikipedia:xxx]].
> > It may be very useful especially for localize (no-english Wikipedia)
> > specification to add explication and links.
> > How?
>
> Tim Starling's been working on some experimental code whereby various
> additional things can be made like this.
>
> Another possibility is to make [[Special:xxx]] just appear a little more
> like a normal page; that is, there would be an "edit this page" link by
> which you can edit the header text.
>
> So instead of a separate [[Wikipedia:Recentchanges]] to find and
> maintain, you'd just go to [[Special:Recentchanges]] and hit edit in the
> usual fashion. A [[Special talk:xxx]] namespace to go with it would be
> useful too.
>
> (Technical note: currently Special: is given numeric code -1; if we were
> storing such pages in the database this would interfere with some code
> that deals with non-talk vs talk pages as being even/odd-numbered.
> Reassigning it to the next available positive integer (8?) shouldn't
> interfere with anything.)
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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