Help:Namespaces
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A namespace is the first part of a title for a wiki page. For example, this page is "Wikibooks:Namespaces". The namespace is thus "Wikibooks".
The basic namespaces for MediaWiki projects are:
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[edit] Basic
- User-namespace: pages for Wikibooks users' personal presentations and auxiliary pages for personal use, for example containing bookmarks to favorite pages. If you see in the Recent Changes list that the user named "Jimbo Wales" has updated some pages, this user name is a link not to Jimbo but to user:Jimbo Wales.
- Talk-namespaces: each of the four namespaces has its own talk namespace associated with it. A 'Talk', 'Wikibooks talk' and 'Image talk' page is for discussions about the corresponding page in one of the other namespaces, a 'User talk' page is also for discussions with a user that are not specifically about one particular article. The talk page of the article "Foo" has the name "Talk:Foo".
- Wikibooks-namespace: info about Wikibooks: how to use it, etc.
- Image-namespace: "image description pages", i.e. info about images and sound clips, one page for each, with a link to the image or sound clip itself.
- There are three versions of links to images and sound files:
- [[Image:Foobar.jpg]] will insert the image directly into the page (not for sound files)
- [[Media:Foobar.jpg]] will make a text link to the image or sound clip
- [[:Image:Foobar.jpg]] will make a text link to the image description page
- There are three versions of links to images and sound files:
- Cookbook-namespace: Pages about cooking recipes and methods reside in this namespace.
- Transwiki-namespace: Transwiki is the process of moving content from one Wikimedia project to another, when the content is then removed from the original location. Modules in the Transwiki namespace have been moved to Wikibooks, but not yet incorporated into a book. You can request pages be imported into the Transwiki namespace on the request for import page. A log of all transwikied pages can be found at Wikibooks:Transwiki log
- Wikijunior-namespace: Books in this namespace are for infants to be read to and for for young children and teenangers to read to themselves.
- Subject-namespace: Pages in this namespace are used for organizations books by subject, getting a brief overview of a subject, finding related subjects and for linking to and from sister projects.
- Special-namespace: Pages that are created by the software on demand (for example, Special:Recentchanges) are sometimes said to form the Special namespace. They can be linked as usual, like [[Special:Recentchanges]], except when they have parameters, then the full URL has to be given, like an external link, for example http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&days=3&limit=10 (last 10 changes)
The "pipe trick" works on namespace links: Automatically hide namespace: [[Wikibooks:Staff lounge|]].
[edit] Full list
The 15 auxiliary namespaces and 5 extra namespaces in Wikibooks are the following (also the variables for them are shown):
| what to type | what it says |
|---|---|
| {{ns:1}} | Talk |
| {{ns:2}} | User |
| {{ns:3}} | User talk |
| {{ns:4}} | Wikibooks |
| {{ns:5}} | Wikibooks talk |
| {{ns:6}} | Image |
| {{ns:7}} | Image talk |
| {{ns:8}} | MediaWiki |
| {{ns:9}} | MediaWiki talk |
| {{ns:10}} | Template |
| {{ns:11}} | Template talk |
| {{ns:12}} | Help |
| {{ns:13}} | Help talk |
| {{ns:14}} | Category |
| {{ns:15}} | Category talk |
| {{ns:102}} | Cookbook |
| {{ns:103}} | Cookbook talk |
| {{ns:108}} | Transwiki |
| {{ns:109}} | Transwiki talk |
| {{ns:110}} | Wikijunior |
| {{ns:111}} | Wikijunior talk |
| {{ns:112}} | Subject |
| {{ns:113}} | Subject talk |
[edit] Bookshelves
The Wikibooks namespace holds policy and other pages of interest only for editors. Bookshelves are treated as modules.
[edit] Pseudonamespaces
Pseudonamespaces are created when every part of a book or project begins with the parent title followed by a colon (Name:subsection). These resemble namespaces, but are not actually namespaces because their talk pages remain in the talk namespace.
- Programming: Contains various books about programming computers and is being gradually phased out.
