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,...

Subpages

• Postfixes, seperated from title bt 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