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