Last modified: 2012-02-18 11:34:22 UTC
Some have suggested that books in Wikibooks should have additional "page structure" that cannot be provided by the frontend. For example, some have suggested that books should have book-internal linking by default, and that the colon-escape (eg. similar behavior to how you make an inline-link to a category page) should be used to link to pages in other books or the pages that are above book-level (eg. bookshelf pages, project pages, user pages). Others believe that we must have something in the backend to augment or enforce the [[b:Hierarchy naming convention]] (ie. pseudo-namespaces or subpages?). Still others believe that books should have their own template and category namespaces, and the main template and category spaces be used for those templates and categories that span multiple books. I am not personally advocating any position, but in any case, perhaps a look into how Wikibooks should be structured is in order, and what, if any, backend changes should be made.
Good comments, but we can't do much development with it. There are related pages outside wikibooks at [[meta:Book construct]] & [[meta:Wikibooks extension]]. Marking as dup of bug 382 for now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 382 ***
Marking as a duplicate of bug 15071, which already has as dependencies bugs for specific features which depend on this needed database structure. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15071 ***
