Namespace Weirdness (was Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trying to get dynamic content on a page)

[Jan Steinman]

BTW: I had a weird problem while debugging Sebastien's cache hack. The 
cache dirty info, cur_touched, was not getting updated.

Then I found that my page Test:Fortune was in namespace zero, under its 
full name (Test:Fortune)! I moved it to Fortune, then back to 
Test:Fortune, and it began working, but it still has 
cur_title='Test:Fortune' and cur_namespace=0.

Perhaps I don't understand how namespaces work. I thought you could 
simply put 'Namespace:Name' at the end of a URL, and it would create a 
new namespace, but it seems Test behaves differently.

More puzzle: I queried for "cur_title LIKE '%:%" and I find all my Test 
namespaces are in namespace 0 (like Test:Fortune), and so are the pages 
in the 'Minutes' namespace that I thought I created.

Am I doing something wrong here? Or is this a known weirdness in 1.4b5?

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