Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, O. O. olson_ot@yahoo.com wrote:
Thanks Daniel. I had not understood the meaning of NS0. Anyway I found the details of NS0 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NS0 However this confuses me even more.
Pages on the English Wikipedia that start with any of the following prefixes are *not* in the main namespace (ns0):
Talk: User: User talk: Wikipedia: Wikipedia talk: File: File talk: MediaWiki: MediaWiki talk: Template: Template talk: Help: Help talk: Category: Category talk: Portal: Portal talk: Special:
All pages that do not start with one of these special prefixes are automatically in namespace 0. To check the namespace number of a page if you're uncertain, you can view the page source and check the body element's classes. namespace 0 pages will have the class "ns-0". Other pages will have some other number; for instance, "Talk:" pages will have "ns-1", because "Talk:" is namespace 1. "User:" is 2, "User talk:" is 3, etc.
Note that some namespaces such as WP: or Image: not explicit on the list above are aliases for them.