User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Update Your CSS and JavaScript To Speed Up Your Wiki/@comment--20120831160603/@comment-3508190-20120906044054

This is all very cumbersome and doesn't make a lot of sense. What's the point of that "l:" prefix e.g.? The help page calls is a "convenience option". There's nothing convenient about adding "l:" to local page titles when you just as well might not. The "l:" prefix looks completely and utterly superfluous from where I'm sitting. Why even mention it?

And what's the deal with that "w:" prefix? Looking up wikis by database name instead of url name is NOT the way 99% of us would want to access external wikis. It's an edge case that may or may not be useful in very special circumstances. Instead I daresay 99% of us expect "w:" to point to Community Central. That's how interwiki links work after all, right? That's what the help page about interwiki links says, right? But as far as the ResourceLoader is concerned what we all know and what's recommended everywhere else is wrong. If Wikia really wants to support this edge case, they should give it a different prefix - like "db:" e.g. AND they should port this feature to regular interwiki links as well! In other words: The "w:" prefix - in its current form - is NOT a feature. It's a bug.

And why in the world would the help page stay silent about the "w:c:" prefix for external pages, but recommend a functionally identical "url:" instead? How does that make sense? We're all familiar with "w:c:". The "w:c:" is therefore clearly superior to "url:". Is the "url:" prefix recommend to distract from the broken "w:" prefix?

I'm sorry to say this, but this stuff is clearly NOT finished.