On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:03:44PM -0000, Mark Clements wrote:
This is something that could be handled using namespaces.
The additional features required in the software would be:
- Namespace manager built into MediaWiki. AFAIK this has been done but
never comitted to trunk? What happened to that code? Any chance of getting it into the core software?
- Ability to specify for a namespace whether links without a namespace
prefix resolve to (a) the default namespace or (b) the current namespace.
*This* is the cool bit, right here.
To link to another microwiki, specify the full namespace. Therefore if you are on the page [[Poker:Flush]] to link to [[Poker:Omaha]] you would simply need to use [[Omaha]], but to link to the geography page you would need to use [[USA Geography:Omaha]].
Let me say that I think this would be useful even if not for "microw~1" type stuff; I'm noodling on the possible downfalls...
The only one that springs to mind at the moment is: how do you point out to the main namespace? It has a name, I guess, right? Is there available shorthand that could be utilized? [[:help]]? or does that mean something already?
Cheers, -- jra