Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:52 UTC
When page title contains multiple namespaces such as [[Talk:Image:Foobar.jpg]], the page have a link to [[Image:Foobar.jpg]] named "content page". But correct talk page is [[Image_talk:Foobar.jpg]]. This behavior will confuse some users.
Also add * [[Image:Talk:Foobar.jpg]] * [[Foobar.jpg:Talk:Image]] for RTL * [[Image/Talk/Foobar.jpg]], [[Talk/Image/Foobar.jpg]] and [[Image_Talk/Foobar.jpg]] for Unix users * [[Image\Talk\Foobar.jpg]], [[Talk\Image\Foobar.jpg]] and [[Image_Talk\Foobar.jpg]] for Windows users This is confusing? Yes. Adding variants for the same thing does not make things less confusing. I would wonder whether [[Talk:Image:Foobar.jpg]] and [[Image_talk:Foobar.jpg]] are really the same thing when encountering them for the first few times.
namespaces really confuse me... I thought that was what disambiguation pages and categories were for... All that I'm finding namespaces to do for me are: cause me to practice typing extra... and cause me to split content into clean sounding categories.. that aren't really that clean... and end up making me do a lot of typing. I do see how they can limit the searching,... but that could be made to work with categories
Different namespaces have different semantics. Compare an Image: page, a Special: page, a Talk: page and an article page. They have different buttons, different functionality. Only Wikipedia: isn't that different from an article, but it is a different thing, too: It's not an encyclopedia article, but text about how we are working, policies, discussion. Whether this could be done using categories? Probably. But performance is something different.
JeLuF made a perfect comment on that. And I'm good at WONTFIX'ing :)
(In reply to comment #0) > When page title contains multiple namespaces such as [[Talk:Image:Foobar.jpg]], > the page have a link to [[Image:Foobar.jpg]] named "content page". > But correct talk page is [[Image_talk:Foobar.jpg]]. > > This behavior will confuse some users. I agree that behavior is not the same as experienced in "day to day live". Note that [[Talk:Talk:Talk:Talk:Foo]] generates a link also. Clicking on the article tab will open a page in the *talk* namespace. See also [[Talk:Help_talk:Talk:]]. ---- *Multiple namespaces* and a space instead of "_" in a namespace name was the reason for bug 2075: Basic functionality broken at ta.wikipedia
