Difference between revisions of "Help:Namespaces"
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*'''User:''' All registered users have their own page under their username, see [[Special:MyUser|your user page]] for this. | *'''User:''' All registered users have their own page under their username, see [[Special:MyUser|your user page]] for this. | ||
*'''Talk:''' The discussion pages for user pages have their own namespace, namely the talk namespace. It's like a discussion page for articles, it only has a different name. | *'''Talk:''' The discussion pages for user pages have their own namespace, namely the talk namespace. It's like a discussion page for articles, it only has a different name. | ||
| − | *Category: | + | *'''Category:''' Pages can be sorted into categories with simple links within the page, like <code><nowiki>[[Category:Milonga]]</nowiki></code>. Every category has its own page, where the pages get listed. |
More namespaces: | More namespaces: | ||
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*'''Template:''' For templates, that can be included into articles and hold content, that needs to be repeated often or layout style, that should be the same on more than one pages, like the [[Template:Infobox festival]]. | *'''Template:''' For templates, that can be included into articles and hold content, that needs to be repeated often or layout style, that should be the same on more than one pages, like the [[Template:Infobox festival]]. | ||
*'''File:''' All uploaded files (images, archives etc) are stored in the file namespace. For embedding a file into a page, a simple link to the file, like <code><nowiki>[[File:darienzo.jpg]]</nowiki></code> is used. "'''Image''':" is an alias for "File" and works as well. | *'''File:''' All uploaded files (images, archives etc) are stored in the file namespace. For embedding a file into a page, a simple link to the file, like <code><nowiki>[[File:darienzo.jpg]]</nowiki></code> is used. "'''Image''':" is an alias for "File" and works as well. | ||
| − | *Media: | + | *'''Media:''' Direct linking to files instead of the file description page or embedding is achieve via the media namespace. |
*'''Special:''' In this namespace you find the special pages, listed under [[Special:SpecialPages]]. These special pages cannot be edited as normal pages and do not have an associated talk page. | *'''Special:''' In this namespace you find the special pages, listed under [[Special:SpecialPages]]. These special pages cannot be edited as normal pages and do not have an associated talk page. | ||
*'''MediaWiki:''' In the MediaWiki namespace are all system messages stored and can also be changed there. | *'''MediaWiki:''' In the MediaWiki namespace are all system messages stored and can also be changed there. | ||
Revision as of 21:16, 6 March 2015
A namespace is grouping pages that belong together. Every "normal" article is in the main namespace and has an associated discussion page in the "Discussion:" namespace to it. Every namespace has a prefix to its page title – with the only exception of the main space. So there is "Help:" for the help namespace and "Template:" for the template namespace.
Most namespaces are set up in the system already, but additional namespaces can also be set up. Some templates and forms add a new page automatically into a namespace.
The usage of namespace is meant for:
- Grouping pages that belong together, e.g. all festivals in a namespace "Festival:".
- Distinction between pages with similar names, like "Buenos Aires" for the city and "Song:Buenos Aires" for the Tango song.
Namespaces
The namespaces you might mostly need for editing:
- Main: The main namespace is the only one that does not append a namespace prefix to the page title. Usually, it holds most of all the content pages of a wiki. If you simply create a new page/a new article, you will do so in the main namespace.
- Discussion: Every page has an associated discussion page, where questions about the article can be talked about.
- User: All registered users have their own page under their username, see your user page for this.
- Talk: The discussion pages for user pages have their own namespace, namely the talk namespace. It's like a discussion page for articles, it only has a different name.
- Category: Pages can be sorted into categories with simple links within the page, like
[[Category:Milonga]]. Every category has its own page, where the pages get listed.
More namespaces:
- Help: For helping content about the wiki, like the Help:User manual.
- Template: For templates, that can be included into articles and hold content, that needs to be repeated often or layout style, that should be the same on more than one pages, like the Template:Infobox festival.
- File: All uploaded files (images, archives etc) are stored in the file namespace. For embedding a file into a page, a simple link to the file, like
[[File:darienzo.jpg]]is used. "Image:" is an alias for "File" and works as well. - Media: Direct linking to files instead of the file description page or embedding is achieve via the media namespace.
- Special: In this namespace you find the special pages, listed under Special:SpecialPages. These special pages cannot be edited as normal pages and do not have an associated talk page.
- MediaWiki: In the MediaWiki namespace are all system messages stored and can also be changed there.
- Project namespace: The project namespace follows the name of the wiki, therefore in here it is called "TangoWiki:". It is used for information about the wiki, the project itself, e.g. TangoWiki:About.
Note: In older wikis, you might still find "Talk" (for "Discussion") and "User talk" (for "Talk"), this has changed since.
