On Apr 7, 2005 5:34 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Other
namespaces include: Wikipedia (see examples above),
Wikipedia_talk, Category, Category_talk, Template, and Template_talk.
Each has its own particular use.
These namespaces apply to Wikipedia, not necessarily to another mediawiki site.
The Wikipedia name space and Wikipedia_talk namespaces won't be found
on all mediawiki sites. They are on Wikipedia because that's the
project name.
Quite right. The above namespaces will all exist, but may have other
names based on language settings and (for project pages, as in
Wikipedia and Wikipedia_talk) the name of the project. Note that for
the convenience of "visitors", there are "canonical" aliases built in
for each, so no matter what the settings of the wiki, the English
names will also work when typing links (the canonical version of
"Wikipedia:" is "Project:")
And by the way that Special: prefix which indicates a
page with
special php code which generates it, doesn't seem to be a third kind
of link prefix.
The code mostly treats Special: as though it was itself a namespace,
and it's normally referred to as such, although as you say these pages
are actually defined in source files, and not in the database.
Similarly, there is a "Media:" 'namespace', which points directly at
an uploaded file (as opposed to the "Image:" description page).
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]