Bump. I just checked and this bug still exists.
Bumping this again since this glitch invalidates the rule that My Timing Is Off stated a week ago on Ask The Tropers: "All namespaces have an automatic namespace index. No exceptions." (Boldface in original.) Any namespace whose name includes the letters M-A-I-N occurring in sequence doesn't get an index because "The Main namespace is too big to display."
Right now we have one namespace, Work Pages In Main, whose automatic indexing is prevented by this glitch. We might have well have more in the future, especially if work pages continue to get split up into namespaced subpages.
Really, the glitch shouldn't be that hard to fix.
edited 13th Aug '14 10:30:13 AM by Prfnoff
Bumping to see if this is still an issue. ~Prfnoff?
Still an issue, though the only namespace that it affects is The Main Characters Do Everything, which has one page
edited 17th Feb '16 7:54:35 PM by Hylarn
My main concern with the bug is that it might make it difficult to track down subpages for a hypothetical show titled something like Mama In Law (since the capitalization of the substring makes no difference).
Admin request filed.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Namespace Index tool refuses to display anything for any conceivable namespace that has the word "Main" as part of it, instead showing the message "The Main namespace is too big to display." Here's an example of one that actually as a page in it (a redirect now on the Cut List):
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/namespace_index.php?ns=Mainl