Hello mediawiki-l,
We've been using MediaWiki 1.15 in our organization for a few months without categories or custom namespaces. We've finally accumulated enough articles for patterns to appear and we've decided to begin organization. I've created some custom namespaces for several departments but I'm confused on the usage of categories.
My question is, how do you avoid category namespace collisions from multiple custom namespaces? When I use the [[:Category:foo]] syntax, the category is created in the Category namespace that is shared among all namespaces. When I use the [[:namespace:foo]] syntax only a normal page is created. This presents a problem when two custom namespaces want to use the same Category title.
Is there a way to accomplish this or will I need to create a separate installation for each department?
You're probably best of creating a separate install for each department. Namespaces aren't really meant to work like folders, and you'll end up with collisions when you go to use categories.
Also, I would recommend using a more recent version of MediaWiki.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Josh Enders jenders@zoosk.com wrote:
Hello mediawiki-l,
We've been using MediaWiki 1.15 in our organization for a few months without categories or custom namespaces. We've finally accumulated enough articles for patterns to appear and we've decided to begin organization. I've created some custom namespaces for several departments but I'm confused on the usage of categories.
My question is, how do you avoid category namespace collisions from multiple custom namespaces? When I use the [[:Category:foo]] syntax, the category is created in the Category namespace that is shared among all namespaces. When I use the [[:namespace:foo]] syntax only a normal page is created. This presents a problem when two custom namespaces want to use the same Category title.
Is there a way to accomplish this or will I need to create a separate installation for each department?
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