[Mediawiki-l] Adding Namespaces

[Brion Vibber]

John Blumel wrote:
> Are there are known issues related to adding namespaces after a wiki
> has been in use for a while?

It's possible to add a namespace which conflicts with existing
'namespace-like' titles. For instance if you add a namespace 'Foo' and
there's already a page 'Foo:Bar', that page is no longer accessible
until you fix its database entries to reassign it to the namespace.

ie, it was recorded as (0,'Foo:Bar') where it should have (100,'Bar').

I've written a helper script to automatically search for and clean up
such entries: you'll find it in the 1.5beta1 package as
maintenance/namespaceDupes.php. It should also run on 1.4, if you copy
it in.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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