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:The problem isnt that more features are needed, or even that it is a special page. The extension is starting a new namespace rather than staying in the Special: namespace, and that would take half a day to fix. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 21:01, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
::Having it in its own namespace is the way it ought to work. The course pages have wiki histories (for the course description section) and the non-wiki parameters that can be changed are also part of the page histories. And the talk pages are pure wiki pages.--[[User:Sage Ross (WMF)|Sage Ross (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sage Ross (WMF)|talk]]) 21:38, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
:::I provided a solution to that problem above. Nobody has explained how the API is going to work with this new namespace. Has this been specified yet, and are there test plans to confirm it is going to work as expected? <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 22:56, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
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