On 15/04/2008, roger@rogerchrisman.com roger@rogerchrisman.com wrote:
What goes in the main page for a namespace? Should it be a normal page, i.e. www.domain.com/index.php/Illinois or shout it be www.domain.com/index.php/Illinois:Main_Page?
Up to you. Something predictably consistent across your whole wiki is best for usability.
/Illinois would have nothing to do with the namespace. If you're having a main page of the namespace (not that there is any technical meaning to that), wouldn't you want it to be in the namespace?
Do all pages in the namespace have to be defined as Illinois:mypage? I am assuming that for now.
That's the sensible user friendly approach.
And the only way that works. The namespace is simply the bit before the colon, so to be in the Illinois namespace, a page needs to be called Illinois:XYZ.
Is there a way to have a page in multiple namespaces?
Templates
Huh?
i.e.say I have Chicago Illinois which is under Illinois:Chicago. But, Chicago has a group that wants to make Chicago look different so it becomes its own namespace so I can do a skin for it. How would I handle that since it needs its own namespace, yet it is still apart of Illinois?
Instead of unnecesary namespace complexity
Namespaces can't be complicated - there is one per article and that's that, what do you mean?