* It's shorter. * Obviously, you don't have to know the namespace name to work on a specific wiki * MediaWiki uses integers. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=&am... )
2008/7/2 Chris Watkins chriswaterguy@appropedia.org:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chris Watkins
I'm trying to get a deeper understanding here - what is the purpose of this?
If you want to let the bot run on all pages, or all pages in a certain range, it will use [[Special:Allpages]]. There you only get pages from one namespace. By telling the bot what is a namespace, it can then choose to get pages from that namespace instead of the default one. Whether or not this is useful for your application of course depends on what use you make of the framework.
Thanks. Is there any reason that the namespace parameter requires a number? I would seem simpler to me to just use the text form (e.g. -namespace:Appropedia_talk ) and not need to have this code in the family file.
Not an important question, more from curiosity.
Chris
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I'm trying to get a deeper understanding here - what is the purpose of this?
If you want to let the bot run on all pages, or all pages in a certain range, it will use [[Special:Allpages]]. There you only get pages from one namespace. By telling the bot what is a namespace, it can then choose to get pages from that namespace instead of the default one. Whether or not this is useful for your application of course depends on what use you make of the framework.
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