Special pages, if I understand all their features, are special why: # they come from a live API query; # they cannot be managed/created/edited by users; # they have no chronology (it would be nonsense).
It.source uses many "list pages", daily updated by a bot, containing other project-specific queries. They are "normal" pages, and their chronology is bot useless and heavy. DynamicPageList extension could solve in part such a useless overload of web space, but its output can't be finely tuned. So, I imagine that it could be useful to have a "special namespace" for "customable user-defined queries & lists", with only one special feature: the lack of chronology stuff. I can imagine that a possible candidate for such exotic, chronology-free pages could be Special: namespace itself; obviously the name of user-created pages into Special: namespace should be different from any "canonical" Special pages. Am I mad? Alex _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
