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Should we merge?

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No!
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I have no idea.
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Keyboard Controller / PS2 Keyboard articles

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Should we merge them into an article called, say, Keyboard? Both of them show example code, but they both could be made better with each others' supporting ideas.
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Yes. I think the contents of Keyboard Controller should be merged into PS2 Keyboard. Which, if the Wiki allows it, should then be renamed PS/2 Keyboard.
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I think the wiki would have an article called "2 Keyboard" as a subarticle of "PS". Bad MediaWiki! :P
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Post by pcmattman »

I'm pretty sure Mediawiki supports slashes in article names - I know I've seen it on Wikipedia before. Whether they're using modifications to support that I don't know, but I do know that I have seen it working.
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Case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_keyboard

But yes, I agree with merging the two articles as well, but I have no definite suggestions on what the final article name should be.
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PS/2 Keyboard should be the name.
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Post by Combuster »

Which would consequently get a link to PS at the top of the page. Wikipedia uses a different version of MediaWiki, and I couldn't find any special tags on the page that tell the software to hide that link.

So I'd use PS2 Keyboard and have PS/2 Keyboard redirect.


Edit: other issue, you cant [wiki]Names/With/Slashes[/wiki] :(
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Post by Troy Martin »

I'm going to work on it right now (I have ten or so minutes until I have to leave, that should be enough time.)

EDIT: I'd also like to clean up some of the headings in the PS2 Keyboard article (wayyyy too many == text == headings.)

EDIT2: Done.
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