List of namespaces used in mediawiki - Wikitech-l

21 Nov 2013


      Hi,
Is there some effective way to retrieve a list of namespaces for a
wiki? In huggle we have that hardcoded now, but that kind of suck,
because every wiki can have some custom NS.
Example: https://github.com/huggle/huggle3-qt-lx/blob/master/huggle/wikipage.hpp
//! Namespaces
    enum MediaWikiNS
    {
        MediaWikiNS_Main,
        MediaWikiNS_Talk,
        MediaWikiNS_Project,
        MediaWikiNS_ProjectTalk,
        MediaWikiNS_User,
        MediaWikiNS_UserTalk,
        MediaWikiNS_Help,
        MediaWikiNS_HelpTalk,
        MediaWikiNS_Category,
        MediaWikiNS_CategoryTalk,
        MediaWikiNS_Mediawiki,
        MediaWikiNS_MediawikiTalk,
        MediaWikiNS_File,
        MediaWikiNS_FileTalk,
        MediaWikiNS_Portal,
        MediaWikiNS_PortalTalk,
        MediaWikiNS_Special
    };
Is there a way to retrieve:
* Namespace original name (the english one which can be used on any
language wiki, like User or Talk) and its talk id
* Namespace localized name and its talk id (User talk for User)
* Namespace ID
for every namespace that is known by a wiki?