Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Platonides wrote:
>> Special page names are better in the sense that you know what it is
>> offhand, but i'm not sure if such search is still acceptable.
> 
> Why not?  I can't think of any problems.

They still are a lot of languages?


>> I don't think it'd get too much support.
> 
> Maybe, but substantive objections would be useful.
> 
>> You would need to deal with the parser, for linking to non-ns0
>> namespaces. I'd prefer not to add a new complexity there.
> 
> It has nothing to do with the parser.  When the parser finds a link,
> it just passes it off to a Title method.  As far as I can think
> (without having actually tried it), it would be a fairly small change.

There might be ugly cases of <nowiki> or other tag extensions inside [[
getting a different behavior.


>>> This should work fine with a global language preference, shouldn't it?
>> Only for the later usecase.
> 
> Why doesn't it work for the first use case?

The special page names are shown in the content language, not in the
user language.


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