There seems to be unanimous agreement to do this, but I'm really hesitant to
make a change that will affect 360,000 pages.
I already did this on meta and it took nearly a minute for the two MediaWiki
pages to update and the whole wiki seemed to crawl when I did that. Last
thing I want to do is slow down en.wikipedia for a half hour or more!
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bug_reports
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:MediaWiki_namespace_text
So am I just being too paranoid or would the wiki really slow down like I
think it might?
-- mav