robchur wrote:

There's an extension to do this, as I recall, which redirects the request to a
page in the project talk namespace. This would be quite difficult to implement,
otherwise, because we haven't allocated a talk namespace for "Special", and it
doesn't exist in the same manner as other namespaces.

seahen123 wrote:

So instead of numbering it the next number up, use the next number down (-2, if
I'm not mistaken. That might mean renumbering Media:, but Media: should be the
least disruptive to renumber.)

ayg wrote:

In theory, the number shouldn't matter too much. Maybe we could reserve a normal, positive
namespace pair for special pages and special talk pages, and just not use the special-page half
of it. Probably slight oddities will crop up, of course, but it's a sort of obvious feature.

robchur wrote:

What's wrong with the extension, apart from the fact that it might need to be
updated?

ayg wrote:

Not necessarily anything. I didn't look at it. :P What's it called?

robchur wrote:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SpecialTalk/

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4078 ***