On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 07:47, Jonathan Walther wrote:
The Special: doesn't really count, because it refers to pages that are dynamically generated, not to something that is article-like.
The Wikipedia: namespace; is it a namespace only because changes to articles in it don't show up in Recent Changes?
They show up in recentchanges along with everything else. They _don't_ show in the article count, the "new articles" list, etc.
Obviously the User: and User_talk: and Talk: and Wikipedia_talk and Special_talk namespaces although I'm not sure those things really need to be separate namespaces.
To go over the list again by number and English name: 0 - '' (encyclopedia articles) 1 - 'Talk' (discussion about the above) 2 - 'User' (user pages; names coincide with user names -- but there are also crudely made slash-subpages in user namespace) 3 - 'User talk' (discussion about the above) 4 - 'Wikipedia' (general meta pages that serve as information and documentation for readers and editors) 5 - 'Wikipedia talk' (discussion about the above) 6 - 'Image' (descriptions of uploaded files; names coincide with uploaded file names) 7 - 'Image talk' (discussion about uploaded files)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)