Manual talk:$wgNamespaceAliases

Re: Override
Override default namespace names.

I think that, if "default namespace names" are overridden by some other names, the defaults may be disabled. Does it really happen? Mulukhiyya 09:20, 2 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I have no idea if these replace or are additional names for namespaces. "Alias" does suggest additional, but who knows if the name is accurate. As I noticed in my edit summary I just copied the initial notes from Tim's initial documentation. So best ask someone to experiment and report back, or ask Tim. pfctdayelise 07:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * (Ah, thank you!) So, the sentence above was written by someone else? (Tim?) Anyway, I'll ask other people. Mulukhiyya 12:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I personally haven't experimented for this yet, but Schu said s/he did it. According to Schu, $wgNamespaceAliases works just like the following example:


 * w:WP:Sandbox -> w:Wikipedia:Sandbox
 * w:WP:Canvassing -> w:Wikipedia:Canvassing

There seems that "WP:" is just an additional alternate name for the primary name, "Wikipedia:", and do es not replace the primary name. So I think "override" is not fit for this case. Mulukhiyya 12:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I have used this, and it gives an alternate way of getting to the same namespace. For me, when you arrive at the page, the namspace appears in the url and in the title of the page as what the original namespace is.
 * On a related note, this is not enough replacement for me, I would like the "alias" name to replace the default name in the url, and have been trying without success to use Apache's rewrite rules to do that. Smaug 00:56, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Where do you put that line ?
I mean $wgNamespaceAliases = array(       'Wikipedian' => NS_USER,        'Help' => 100,); Where is that supposed to go ? I could not use it in LocalSettings.php... So where ?