Okay, makes sense.
I see now that it's possible to use the text version as a parameter, which
is nice (for example -namespace:Appropedia or -"namespace:Appropedia talk"
)
Chris
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
* 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=&a…
)
2008/7/2 Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy(a)appropedia.org>rg>:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)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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