---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:24 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Canonical namespace change coming: Image: -> File: To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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As per long-time wistful desire, we're planning to rename the 'Image:' namespace to 'File:'. This will reduce confusion with audio, video, and document file uploads being called 'images' -- they're now all first-class citizens. :)
This should go smoothly and transparently for most purposes. 'Image:' will continue to be an alias, and perhaps even recommended for inline usage.
But some user scripts and bots might get confused, so we're giving warning first!
Image description pages will now sit at the 'File:' title rather than the 'Image:' title, and the JavaScript variables and HTML body classes will reflect this, such as:
var wgCanonicalNamespace = "File"; var wgPageName = "File:Wiki.png";
<body class="mediawiki ltr ns-6 ns-subject page-File_Wiki_png skin-monobook">
If your script or bot relies on wgCanonicalNamespace being 'Image', or the value of the language-specific prefix, consider updating it to allow both 'Image' and 'File' or check the number instead (6).
I've made a patch against r41626 and attached it to the bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44
Unless there's a major issue, my plan is to commit it one week from today. Once the core English namespace is changed, other localizations may update their localized namespace names and aliases at their convenience.
Please *do not* update localizations before it's been committed!
- -- brion
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