[Mediawiki-l] Problem or bug with custom namespaces

[Rob Church]

On 16/05/06, R. Sudermann <sudermann at ccds.de> wrote:
> Just a short question: is it the normal behaviour that the content of
> existing pages with a custom namespace dissappears after I enable the
> namespace in the wikiengine?
>
> Maybe it should be done the other way round, but now we have done the
> following:
> 1.  created some pages e.g. "customNS:page1", "customNS:page2"
> 2.  enabled the custom namsspace named  "customNS" in the wiki engine.
> 3. result: all pagecontent on the pages  "customNS:page1",
> "customNS:page2" was gone.
>
> Is this the normal behaviour or do I miss something?

It is now. The trouble is that before, the pages were going into the
main namespace, i.e. their numerical namespace index was 0. Now
there's a specific index for that namespace, pulling up those pages
doesn't work.

Run the namespaceDupes maintenance script to correct the entries.


Rob Church