[Mediawiki-l] Will articles be transferred into namespaces?

[Rob Church]

On 28/08/06, Yusuf Mohsinally <yusufm at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I name my articles like (Java:Arrays) and then *later on* create a
> namespace called Java, will the articles having the "Java:" automatically be
> added to the Java namespace?

No. You will need to run the namespaceDupes.php maintenance script,
otherwise MediaWiki will be unable to find the content, period.

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Dealing_with_existing_pages
for a lot more information on this.


Rob Church