MediaWiki handles these major issues without any problem or complexity whatsoever. The concept and the application of organizing content in MediaWiki are easy to grasp and apply. MediaWiki has the following software features to strengthen its organizing ability.
Namespaces
Categories
Templates
Sections
Redirection
We will now explore each of the features in detail with examples.
Namespaces are used to group together similar type of contents. Namespaces divide a wiki into different areas so that each functional area is clearly defined. Namespaces can segregate different types of content that may exist under the same title. Generally, namespaces should not be used to categorize content of the same type—we can use categories for that.
The namespaces that come with MediaWiki illustrate this "content type" distinction:
The
Main
, un-prefixed, namespace is for the primary content to be maintained in the wiki.The
Talk
namespaces are for discussion.The
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