[Wikipedia-l] colons

Mon Feb 25 10:28:57 UTC 2002

From: <kband at www.llamacom.com>
>
> Thus instead of the ":" being a reserved character anywhere in a
> title, only "user:", "talk:", "wikipedia:" etc. need to be
> reserved. Any other uses of colons should be fine. This will let us
> have entries for books with standard formatting of the subtitle (e.g.,
> "The Muggles: A Tale of Woe") or other natural uses of the colon.

There is a simpeler solution. The actual contents of Wikipedia get the
namespace "content:". If everything is prefixed with a namespace then the
first colon is always the end of the namespace.

-- Jan Hidders