Why use namespaces for this?

It seems to me that namespaces are intended for pages that are different in behaviour (i.e., permissions, styles and such), not for differences in content.

On my site (http://www.novaroma.org/) I use namespaces for language switching; the reason for that is that macros like PAGENAME can be used for inter-language links to the equivalent article.

I would like users to be able to search, say, just one novel, or see the pages for one novel. Would it be better to use categories for this? To recap, I'm doing a wiki on an author and it will have different sections for each of the five novels. I'm very open to suggestions.

Thanks.

Tim

Thanks, This was all very clear. Now that I've created the namespace "ATD", I assume I can go to pages named, say, "ATD_-_A" and move/ rename them to "ATD:A" which will put that page in the namespace ATD, yes? I did this, but the title of the page now shows "ATD:A", that is, it shows the namespace and the page name. Is there a way not to show the namespace in the main header?

Also, I created a namespace "Jack" and made it not searchable, in LocalSettings.php, but when I search for a file called "create" which I had created in the main namespace but moved to "Tim:create", it still turns up in the search even though I made searching that namespace "false". Maybe I have to quit the browser or something?

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In a message dated 11/5/2006 11:42:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, tim@hyperarts.com writes:

If someone could point me to what the additions would be in LocalSettings.php, that'd be great. Was this page not helpful? Or perhaps you didn't find it yet _http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces_ (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces)

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