rajkumar subbarayan wrote:
Hi All,
what is Wikipedia: ? in the below link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/September_11
i got this link from wikipedia home page.this page is transcluded page in
home page.
Usually templates are used for transcluding.But what is Wikipedia here
Thanks and Regards,
Raj S
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion>
Wikipedia is the project namespace on Wikipedia. As it's a namespace
{{Wikipedia:Whatever}} searchs for a page called
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Whatever instead of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia:Whatever
If we wanted to include a page from the Main namespace instead from the
template one, we would use {{:Whatever}}
As why such page is used for being transcluded, that's a content
decision, particular to the English wikipedia project.