Namespaces are used by MediaWiki to group together pages that have a similar purpose such as help pages, user profiles, or talk pages. This is not to be confused with pages that contain similar content. These pages are grouped by categories which we will discuss later in this chapter. Pages that exist within a namespace in a wiki are noted by the namespace prefix that helps to form the title of the page. For example, if we have a page called Uploading a video file that exists in the Help namespace, it would appear as Help:Uploading a video file. Perhaps you want to create a new page for an upcoming marketing project for your company. This would appear as Project Marketing project. MediaWiki makes use of 18 built-in namespaces. The odd numbered namespaces represent talk namespaces while even numbered ones represent subject namespaces.
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Namespace |
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Main |
This groups together a majority of the site's content. There is no namespace prefix for the... |