[Mediawiki-l] rome:information/weather or rome/information/weather ?

[Jim Wilson]

> I am new so that I am confused.  Does [[Rome:Information/weather]] looks
> like a namespace or Category?

It looks like a namespace.  Links may either be of the form [[Some
Page]] (where Main namespace is implied) or [[Namespace:Some Page]].

Namespaces often have special meanings - like Category, Image and
Media - which cause them to behave differently during page render.

-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)

On 10/3/07, Nelson A Li <nli at csc.com> wrote:
> I am new so that I am confused.  Does [[Rome:Information/weather]] looks
> like a namespace or Category?
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> Nelson
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> On 28/09/2007, Arena Andrea <andrea at arena.cd> wrote:
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> > i'm not sure wich system to use for every city in Italy.
> > It's better to use rome:information/weather or rome/information/
> > weather ?
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> [[Rome:Information/weather]] looks like a namespace. If you can only
> have a few namespaces (16?) in Mediawiki, they could run out very
> quickly. Not everything with a colon has to be a namespace, but users
> may think it is one.
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> I prefer having everything in the top layer in a MediaWiki
> installation, and grouping things using categories. But some
> reasonably sizable installations use subpages (e.g.
> [[Rome/Information/Weather]]) in a productive way, e.g. Citizendium.
> (CZ is only small compared to en:wp - it's 20,000 pages.)
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