Wiki Page Naming
From AccountIT
Page name
- Page names consists of multiple parts: Namespace:Title/Subpagetitle
- Examples
- USER:Pierre/Tests
- KMD
- Talk:KMD
- 2001:A space Odyssey
- Std:out
- /dev/null
- Examples
Namespace
- Prefixes, separated from title by colon ":"
- Not all prefixes that end with ":" are namespaces!
- Available prefxes provided by MediaWiki, more can be added in configuration
- Default:Main(empty)
- User
- Category
- Template
- Help
- MediaWiki
- File
- Special
- Project(sitename)
- The purpose is to distinguish basic "content types"
- Available prefxes provided by MediaWiki, more can be added in configuration
- Namespaces can have aliases (ex. File: and Image:)
- Special: is for pages that has fixed functionality, Editing is NOT possible here.
- Every namespace has a talk version; Talk User talk,...
Subpages
- Postfixes, seperated from title by slash "/"
- Not all postfixes after "/" are subpages!
- Enable for certain namespaces
- By default only for User and all Talk pages
- Often not appropriate for organising pages (rigid, hierarchical content structure)
- Small difference to pages with "/" in title
- For exsample when moving pages