Forum:Should UN be made into an alias to Uncyclopedia?

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Right now, many shortcuts start with UN:, such as UN:VFD and UN:VFH. Should UN be made an alias of Uncyclopedia (much like WP is an alias to Wikipedia on Wikipedia) so that all redirects in the Uncyclopedia namespace are accessible using the UN: prefix? SomeStupidUser (This is YOUR page) (talk) 03:15, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Probably should. Unfortunately I don't know how hard/easy that would be to implement. I've kinda always wanted this. MrX blow me 04:45, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

I think it should be done. It seems easy enough, about something I could do... ARandomPage, the named space (ARandomTalkPage) (Stuff they do) 05:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Actually, making namespace aliases requires editing the LocalSettings.php file. The manual says so. So if we decide to do this, someone will have to edit LocalSettings.php on the server. SomeStupidUser (This is YOUR page) (talk) 02:26, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Oh. I thought it was just a matter of creating new redirects and pasting in the shortcut template, which I can easily do. ARandomPage, the named space (ARandomTalkPage) (Stuff they do) 11:16, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

I support this idea. I'll try passing it along to the people who can actually implement it. -- The Zombiebaron 11:03, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

This is (somewhat) done now. I set $wgNamespaceAliases['UN'] = NS_PROJECT; in the config file and ran the namespaceDupes.php maintenance script (which errored out the first time...) to make the pages previously prefixed with UN: accessible again.

Some pages the script couldn't automatically fix (at least without specifying an option like --add-suffix or --add-prefix to add a suffix or a prefix to pages which now have conflicting names. These pages are:

id=714695 ns=0 dbk=UN:. *** invalid title
id=703282 ns=0 dbk=UN::M *** invalid title
id=220477 ns=0 dbk=UN:AAN *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=312025 ns=0 dbk=UN:AFD *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=751718 ns=0 dbk=UN:BRO *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=742275 ns=0 dbk=UN:CSD *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=755713 ns=0 dbk=UN:D *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=317387 ns=0 dbk=UN:DONUTS *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=47979 ns=0 dbk=UN:FAQ *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=351768 ns=0 dbk=UN:FFS *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=656847 ns=0 dbk=UN:FOAD *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=334850 ns=0 dbk=UN:Grue_Army *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=48052 ns=0 dbk=UN:HTBFANJS *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=171713 ns=0 dbk=UN:ICU *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=238018 ns=0 dbk=UN:IRC *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=522969 ns=0 dbk=UN:MUP *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=105768 ns=0 dbk=UN:NRV *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=121502 ns=0 dbk=UN:PFP *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=47801 ns=0 dbk=UN:QVFD *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=642471 ns=0 dbk=UN:RYA *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=741525 ns=0 dbk=UN:Shortcut *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=713532 ns=0 dbk=UN:Skype *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=746375 ns=0 dbk=UN:Template *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=746376 ns=0 dbk=UN:Templates *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=94228 ns=0 dbk=UN:UotM *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=336475 ns=0 dbk=UN:VD *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=48046 ns=0 dbk=UN:VFD *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=48059 ns=0 dbk=UN:VFH *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=47791 ns=0 dbk=UN:VFP *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=416658 ns=0 dbk=UN:VFP/Expired *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=313668 ns=0 dbk=UN:VFS *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=392533 ns=0 dbk=UN:VPV *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=445408 ns=0 dbk=UN:idea *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=445416 ns=0 dbk=Un:Idea *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=572584 ns=0 dbk=Un:Request *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=140148 ns=0 dbk=Un:evil *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
id=559283 ns=0 dbk=Un:work *** dest title exists and --add-prefix not specified
37 pages to fix, 0 were resolvable.

-- Jack Phoenix, professional killer admin (Whine?) • (Wikia ♥ ads) 16:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for this! I didn't expect a mostly-working version to come this early. ARandomPage, the named space (ARandomTalkPage) (Stuff they do) 07:42, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

On the topic of this, please use my message wall for advice on random PHP code to add into your index.php file without review - I have plenty Microsoft for POTUS (talk) 04:23, 19 June 2022 (UTC)