Wiki Mediawiki Understanding

Mediawiki definitions

• Namespaces
  • 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"
  • 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,...