[Mediawiki-l] namespaces in relation to initial installationandconfiguration

[Daniel Bishop]

>Not really. My apologies, I should have explained this in more detail.
>
>To give one very simple example of what it is I'm trying to achieve, I want
to put all "help" related pages, in a 
>namespace called "help." All articles within this namespace will, as the
name suggests, be pages offering guidance of 
>how to navigate one's way around the wiki, search for content and
edit/modify existing content etc, etc. In order to 
>make finding the specific "help" page one might potentially require, it
would be helpful to create an index article page 
>that did itself, list all other pages (articles) within the namespace.
>
>So, using my example, if there were say 20 pages within the help namespace,
I'd want to create a "Help:IndexPage" page 
>that listed all 20 pages and included internal links to take you to the
page in question. 
>
>I hope this makes sense.  

One way of doing this would be to manually create the page and include links
to all of the pages.

Another way would be using the Dynamic Page List extension to automatically
generate the list of pages based on the namespace.

Which one is best for you would depend on how often you see the list of
pages changing.



>I'm not entirely sure I understand your question but what I can tell you is
this. I've only step the wiki up in what can 
>only be described as a sandbox server. In actuality, it's running on
nothing more than a standalone, non-networked 
>windows PC and is using a XAMPP architecture. 
>
>The wiki is operating off localhost. 
>
>The URL to access the wiki is: http://localhost/eurowiki/
>
>Which, for reasons I don't quite understand seems to actually result in the
following URI actually being loaded:
>http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
>Given that I want to assign pages to namespaces, and I want to edit the
MediaWiki.Common.css page, I need to resolve 
>this issue as soon as possible.

This is the default way Mediawiki handles URLs. In order to edit
Mediawiki:Common.css, you would need to go to
http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/Mediawiki:Common.css.