Help talk:Namespace/Archives/2007

Namespace operating as Category?

Hi. Is there a way to force a custom namespace to act as a category? I'm willing to do some modding, but I just need to know where. -- Nexis 02:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I, too, would like to know the answer to this. -- Treader 06:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Custom Namespaces for MediaWiki 1.9.3 not working (?)

I ported my Wiki from 1.5 to 1.9.3 and did not encounter any problems. However, I have created a list of new Namespaces with the intention of making them protected namespaces. The new namespaces do appear under Special:Userrights (Rights Management). They do not appear under All Pages or Prefix Index. The first Example is a custom namespace of DP. I move articles to DP:Name of article and the subject article stays in the main namespace.

Here is what I did in LocalSettings.php

$wgExtraNameSpaces = array(
       100 => "Accounting",
       101 => "Accounting_Talk",
       102 => "Administration",
       103 => "Administration_Talk",
       104 => "Callcenter",
       105 => "Callcenter_Talk",
       106 => "Collections",
       107 => "Collections_Talk",
       108 => "DP",
       109 => "DP_Talk",
       110 => "HR",
       111 => "HR_Talk",
       112 => "Indirect",
       113 => "Indirect_Talk",
       114 => "MIS",
       115 => "MIS_Talk",
       116 => "Operations",
       117 => "Operations_Talk",
       118 => "Mortgage",
       119 => "Mortgage_Talk",
       120 => "Records",
       121 => "Records_Talk",
       122 => "Lending",
       123 => "Lending_Talk" );

Based on the documentation, as I add articles to a new namespace, the namespace should appear on the list of namespaces. It will not.

The name of the variable is $wgExtraNamespaces (note the case). — Nikerabbit 08:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

namespace or schema?

It took me a while to figure out what the namespaces do. My understanding of namespace is that it allows the same name to be reused without conflict. In the mediawiki context, however, this is secondary to creating several distinct structures, such as Help, Category, and Template, to support the website itself. Schema implies an overall plan or design, which seems more fitting than namespace and I wonder if its usage is historically based, or grounded in some rationale I don't understand? (PeterMG 22:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC))

I guess the namespace is correct, at least in the context for Wikipedia (MediaWikis main user) - there's only one space for articles (the name-space) and only one for users. Within that spaces you could try to figure out a schema, but not above them. It's not about reusing same names without conflicts, it's about grouping same pages (articles, discussions about articles, pages about users, ...) under clearly named spaces. --en:User:32X 04:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

How to display Sub Namespace

Just like there is a User_talk in all User pages, I tried to create a User_specialinfo

It is accessible in User_specialinfo:Joe but I want a Specialinfos flag to appear in all Users pages, just like the User talk flag appear on all.
Other problem, when i access User_specialinfo:Joe the title is Editing User:Joe instead of Editing User specialinfos:Joe like in talk page

What does this mean ?

I found this para dificult to translate to Marathi Language , specialy I did not understand for each of the two What does that refer to ? is it to special:all pages ? in that case special all pages does not have invert option like recent changes. So I am confused. "

• Special:Allpages can be applied to a namespace of choice

From MediaWiki 1.5 Recent changes ditto;for each of the two, one can also select all namespaces except a specified one; thus, although one cannot have a single list of all pages, one can select a small namespace and use the invert option, to get almost all pages."

I will apreciate any help making me understand above difficulty and I will apreciate if some one can simplyfy this bit complex sentence , so it would be easy for translations. Thanks and regards

Vijay mr:User:विजय

I think Special:Allpages has had the invert button before. To update, I removed the remark.--Patrick 02:10, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Namespace Walkthrough

Is there a walkthrough anywhere that shows how to set up custom namespaces? I would like to be able to set them up on my site so that each person can create a main page, and then use namespaces to create subsequent pages without all the colons showing up in the titles, as well as offering the links back to ancestor pages.

Editing existing namespace

I want to for example have it not say "User talk" but "User Talk" How would I do this?--CaptainBrooks 07:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)