[Mediawiki-l] Namespace confusion

[Jamie Bliss]

In supercells:
#REDIRECT [[Supercell]]

On Apr 7, 2005 10:47 AM, CheekyGeek <cheekygeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> If one is typing an article and put the double brackets around a word
> or phrase, that word or phrase becomes a link. Clicking on the link
> goes to that page (before editing, naturally, it is empty). Two
> questions:
> 
> How does one avoid getting (or handling) two pages that deal with the
> identical subject. For example, if I create a link to the term
> "supercell" and another author creates a link using the term
> "supercells", do I not end up with TWO pages that must be kept "in
> sync" with the same definition? I know that leaving the last "s"
> outside the double brackets solves the problem, but
> a) that option is not available for all plural words or for other suffixes
> b) it only takes one person to create additional pages that are
> duplicates of the first.
> 
> Is this part of the "pruning" process that must go on in maintaining a
> wiki? (This could particularly explain the usefulness of the "What
> links here" Toolbox link. With that one could go to the supercells
> page and change all references to point to the supercell page. If this
> is the best way to handle it, does one delete the duplicate (plural)
> page after all references to it have been removed?
> 
> Also, "namespace" in MediaWiki seems to mean something different than
> I am using it above. I'm not sure I'm clear on that, but the "Special"
> pages are one example of that. "Special" seems to be called the
> "namespace" and the part after the colon is something else. Can
> anybody explain that further?
> 
> Darren Addy
> Kearney, NE
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