Help:Namespace

Saintapedia namespaces
Basic namespaces		Talk namespaces
0	Main	Talk	1
2	User	User talk	3
4	Saintapedia	Saintapedia talk	5
6	File	File talk	7
8	MediaWiki	MediaWiki talk	9
10	Template	Template talk	11
12	Help	Help talk	13
14	Category	Category talk	15
100	Portal	Portal talk	101
106	Form	Form talk	107
420	GeoJson	GeoJson talk	421
828	Module	Module talk	829
844	CommentStreams	CommentStreams talk	845
2300	Gadget	Gadget talk	2301
2302	Gadget definition	Gadget definition talk	2303
Virtual namespaces
-1	Special

A namespace is a like a drawer in a file cabinet. It allows users of Saintapedia to store different types of material in different file drawers. Most users only see the "Main" user space. It is where all of the topical articles are created. However, there are a number of other file drawers that serve specific purposes. Wikipedia has a comprehensive article on namespaces.

Except for the Main namespace, articles stored in the other namespaces are always preceded by the name of the namespace. Examples:

• Help:Renaming indicates there is an article about Renaming that is contained in the "Help" namespace.

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Namespaces

Main

Main (no prefix): contains all articles, lists, disambiguation pages, and redirects. Sometimes referred to as "mainspace".

Help

Help' (prefix Help:): contains pages which provide help in using Saintapedia and its software, both for users of the collaboration tool and for editors.

File

File (prefix File:): contains file description pages for image, videos or audio files, with links to the files themselves. See Special:Filelist.

User

User (prefix User:): contains user pages and other pages created by individual users for their own personal use. Pages under this namespace can still be viewed and modified by others, so do not keep any of your sensitive data here.

Template

Template (prefix Template:): contains templates – pages that are intended primarily to be transcluded or substituted onto other pages to insert standard text or boxes such as infoboxes and navigation boxes.

Saintapedia

Saintapedia (prefix Saintapedia:): contains many types of pages connected with the Saintapedia project itself.

Mediawiki

MediaWiki (prefix MediaWiki:): a namespace containing interface texts, such as the links and messages that appear on automatically generated pages. Pages in this namespace are permanently protected. For a list of these messages, see Special:AllMessages and Help:System message .

Category

Category (prefix Category:): contains category pages, which display a list of pages and subcategories that have been added to a particular category, and optional additional text.

Portals

Portals (prefix Portals:): for reader-oriented portals that help readers find articles related to a specific topic, and may contain links to encourage contributions to relevant WikiProjects.

Module

This is where Scribunto modules are stored.

Page Forms

Page Forms

ID	Name	Constant	Remark
106	Form:	PF_NS_FORM	Prior to the extension being renamed, this namespace's constant name was SF_NS_FORM.
107	Form_talk:	PF_NS_FORM_TALK	Prior to the extension being renamed, this namespace's constant name was SF_NS_FORM_TALK.

Layer

Layer (prefix Layer:) is the default namespace for Maps

ID	Name	Constant	Remark
420	GeoJson:	NS_GEO_JSON	Formerly named "Layer" (Maps_NS_LAYER).
421	GeoJson_talk:	NS_GEO_JSON_TALK	Formerly named "Layer_talk" (Maps_NS_LAYER_TALK)

CommentStreams

CommentStreams

ID	Name	Constant	Remark
844	CommentStreams:	NS_COMMENTSTREAMS	may be overridden by $wgCommentStreamsNamespaceIndex
845	CommentStreams_talk:	NS_COMMENTSTREAMS_TALK	Presently unused.

Gadgets

Gadgets

ID	Name	Constant	Remark
2300	Gadget:	NS_GADGET
2301	Gadget_talk:	NS_GADGET_TALK
2302	Gadget_definition:	NS_GADGET_DEFINITION
2303	Gadget_definition_talk:	NS_GADGET_DEFINITION_TALK

Talk namespaces

Each of the namespaces also has a corresponding "talk" namespace (i.e. Help_talk). The "discussion tab" associated with each article links to the corresponding "talk" namespace article. In all cases except the main article space, the talk namespace takes the form [[Namespace_talk:<article name>]] (e.g. Help_talk:Contents). For the main article space, it simply takes the form [[Talk:<article title>]]

Special namespace

The Special: namespace consists of pages (called special pages) that are created by the software on demand, such as Special:RecentChanges. These pages can be linked as usual, as [[Special:RecentChanges]], except when they have parameters, when the full URL must be given like an external link. For example, https://saintapedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10, which returns the last ten changes.

You can create a redirect to a Special page, but the redirect will not be followed automatically.

For a list of special pages, see Special:SpecialPages.

Namespace names in PHP

Below is a few of the known namespaces.

• Main - NS_MAIN

• Talk - NS_TALK

• User - NS_USER

• User Talk - NS_USER_TALK

• File - NS_FILE

• File talk - NS_FILE_TALK

• MediaWiki - NS_MEDIAWIKI

• Mediawiki Talk - NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK

• Template - NS_TEMPLATE

• Template Talk - NS_TEMPLATE_TALK

• Help - NS_HELP

• Help talk - NS_HELP_TALK

• Category - NS_CATEGORY_TALK

• Category talk - NS_CATEGORY_TALK

• Portal - NS_PORTAL

• Portal talk - NS_PORTAL_TALK

Searching namespaces

By default, the search box will only search the main article space. Users can tell Saintapedia which namespaces they'd like to search within by going to the "Search" tab within my preferences. Users can also tell Saintapedia to search in other namespaces on any given search by scrolling to the bottom of the search results, selecting which namespaces you want to search, and then running the search again.

Related

• Interwiki links
• Help:Page name

External links

• Extension default namespaces