Help:Namespace

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Namespaces in mediawiki are like folders in a file system, they are used to segregate different classes of content and facilitate permissions control.

All page titles in MediaWiki are composed of two parts:

[[Namespace:Title]]

The main namespace is the null or default option, which you link to by just including the title in brackets. All other namespaces must be referred to specifically, then a colon, then the page title.

By default, a wiki using the MediaWiki has 18 namespaces, including:

• the main namespace, where page names have no prefix
• 15 additional namespaces, including
  • Help: which includes all the help pages
  • Category: which defines categories
  • Template: which defines templates
  • Special: built-in special pages for users and administrators.
  • Mediawiki: system controls
  • Talk: there are actually many talk namespaces - one for each of the other namespaces.
  • Admin: is a custom defined namespace in this wiki
  • Private: is a custom defined namespace in this wiki