Content that is housed in many of the namespaces is created on the fly. For instance, when you first register as a user, a new page in the User namespace is created. When you create a Help page, a new page appears in the Help namespace. If you add to the discussion page for an article on your wiki, a new talk page is created. For Main, Project, Template, Help, and Category pages, we can add new pages directly into the namespace.
For example, if our IT department wanted a user manual for a new software package that was just installed, we could create a project page for this. In this instance, we would have to designate the namespace or it would default to a regular article.
1. Open your wiki in your browser and log in.
2. In your browser's address bar, type the following: http://www.yoursitename.com/index.php/Project:Project page name.
For the example site, I will be entering: http://www.flosspropopulo.com/index.php/Project: Using our new software...