Thread:Project:Support desk/Short URLs for other namespaces/reply

I suppose the "rewrite" or "alias" features in Apache are able to convert any "incoming" URL into whatever the application expects. The short or pretty URL feature works this way too.

Step two is concerning the way that Mediawiki renders internal links like Author:Hemingway into HTML hyperlinks -->. Or, in your case, -->.

Mediawiki has hooks that are called in that part of the rendering process for you to plug an extension into, so you can munge the URLs as needed.

Does that help?