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)