Matthew Betts-4 wrote:

Is there a way to ensure that a template is included in all pages of a particular namespace? I'd like to use our mediawiki to allow people to annotate some things in a biology project, and the wiki URLs will be generated automatically by an external program.

Hi Matthew,

I'm not quite sure I fully understand your requirements but you should have a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateArticle

hth Frank