If there is tool which is supposed to link to various pages and it is supposed to be crossproject, then although it can link to basic namespaces (-2 - 14) via canonical names, further namespaces can't be linked otherwise than obtaining current namespacelist from API. This is not practical for example in cases when tools run offline etc.

Therefore it would be practical to have ability to link by URL to namespaces via their numbers.

On wiki you can of course do [[{{ns:10}}:Foo]] to get Template:Foo, but you can not construct URL on external tools this way.

There are two possible solutions coming to my mind:

mywiki.example/wiki/10:Foo
mywiki.example/wiki/Special:CanonicalLink/10:Foo

I would personaly prefer the first solution because it is shorter and more intuitive. However I assume there could be some issues with existing page titles starting with numbers. So actually allowing the parser function to expand in URL might work:

mywiki.example/wiki/{{ns:10}}:Foo

If none of those above are possible, I would welcome even any other solution which would allow linking to namespaces via their numbers.

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Danny_B created this task.Jun 22 2012, 10:54 AM

Or [10]:Foo?

In this way it can be used in URL only and avoid any conflict with existing title.

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Nemo_bis added a project: OKR-Work.Mar 13 2016, 10:14 AM

In T39825#422460, @liangent wrote:

Or [10]:Foo?

In this way it can be used in URL only and avoid any conflict with existing title.

Yeah, pretty much does the same as mywiki.example/wiki/{{ns:10}}:Foo - that also avoids conflicts and is consistent with wikitext...

What about, in Setup.php' establishing that, for every namespace, an entry in $wgNamespaceAliases is added?

For 10:Foo

$nsInfo = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getNamespaceInfo();
foreach ( array_keys( $this->getCanonicalNamespaces() ) as $ns ) {
	$wgNamespaceAliases[] = [ (string)$ns => $ns ];
}

For [10]:Foo

$nsInfo = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getNamespaceInfo();
foreach ( array_keys( $this->getCanonicalNamespaces() ) as $ns ) {
	$wgNamespaceAliases[] = [ ( '[' . (string)$ns . ']' ) => $ns ];
}

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DannyS712 merged a task: T58301: Accept numeric namespaces directly.Sep 12 2019, 3:46 AM

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