On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chris Watkins chriswaterguy@appropedia.org wrote:
I was just making a fresh install, to see if that would solve my problem with the bots not running successfully.
I saw that in the family file there is the following (using the example from Appropedia):
self.namespaces[4] = { '_default': u'Appropedia', #Specify the project namespace here.Other } #namespaces will be set to MediaWiki default.
self.namespaces[5] = { '_default': u'Appropedia talk',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.