[Pywikipedia-l] namespaces in family file

[Nicolas Dumazet]

* It's shorter.
* Obviously, you don't have to know the namespace name to work on a
specific wiki
* MediaWiki uses integers. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=&namespace=0
)

2008/7/2 Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy at appropedia.org>:
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> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chris Watkins
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>> > I'm trying to get a deeper understanding here - what is the purpose of
>> > this?
>>
>> If you want to let the bot run on all pages, or all pages in a certain
>> range, it will use [[Special:Allpages]]. There you only get pages from
>> one namespace. By telling the bot what is a namespace, it can then
>> choose to get pages from that namespace instead of the default one.
>> Whether or not this is useful for your application of course depends
>> on what use you make of the framework.
>
>
> Thanks. Is there any reason that the namespace parameter requires a number?
> I would seem simpler to me to just use the text form (e.g.
> -namespace:Appropedia_talk ) and not need to have this code in the family
> file.
>
> Not an important question, more from curiosity.
>
> Chris
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>> I'm trying to get a deeper understanding here - what is the purpose of
>> this?
>
> If you want to let the bot run on all pages, or all pages in a certain
> range, it will use [[Special:Allpages]]. There you only get pages from
> one namespace. By telling the bot what is a namespace, it can then
> choose to get pages from that namespace instead of the default one.
> Whether or not this is useful for your application of course depends
> on what use you make of the framework.
>
>
>
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