On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM, K.Siva Senthil opensource.ksivasenthil@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I was trying to find out what is the difference between an article and
page
in wiki's terminology?
Usually, a "page" is used more broadly in Wikipedia terms: It can be everything from a redirect, to a discussion page, a user page, an image description page etc.
An article is really this ("namespace 0" for the technically minded), [[Oxford]] is an article whereas [[User:Mbimmler]] is not, but both are pages.
-- Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
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The MediaWiki.org page on the subject[1] seems to be fairly useful in clarifying exactly what defines an "article" from the software's perspective. As Michael pointed out, these (tend) to reside in NS-0 and not be redirects.
Additionally (and this is the technical side, not the community's meaning of the word), it must contain at least 1 internal link.
-Chad