[Foundation-l] What is a page in wikipedia?

[Chad]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM, K.Siva Senthil
> <opensource.ksivasenthil at 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.
>
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> Michael Bimmler
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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

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Article