Manual:$wgContentNamespaces/en

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exists to allow custom namespaces to be acknowledged as containing useful content for the purpose of Special:Random, Special:Statistics, and. Useful if additional namespaces also contain "content" which should be considered when choosing a random page or generating a count of the number of articles in the wiki. It also serves as the default for, which means that __NOINDEX__ and __NOFOLLOW__ magic words won't work in these namespaces.

The main namespace is considered a content namespace, as are other namespaces in this array, referenced by index.

Example:

or

If you change this variable, you'll have to run to update the count in Special:Statistics and.

This does not control which namespaces the full-text search engine defaults to searching; that must be configured separately using.