[Wikipedia-l] Preferences

[Magnus Manske]

Brion Vibber wrote:

> (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.)

Why not leave cur_title as "Special:XXX", and the whole thing in article 
namespace?

Magnus