Manual talk:Using custom namespaces

Could I use ExtraNamespaces in Chinese
Please see Manual_talk:LocalSettings.php.

Move conflicting pages
What is meant with "un-comment"?

comment is to include // at the start if the line un-comment is to remove // from the start of the line --Gamingmadness 05:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Problem with "Special:Wantedpages" after adding Custom Namespaces
After I added some custom namespaces and ran the maintenance script mentioned in this article to move existing pages into respective namespaces, almost all of the affected pages show up in the "Wanted Pages" special page. If I click on them it takes me to the edit window with the existing contents of the page. Does someone know what I am missing here?

enable extra namespace by default
if i search something i always have to enable the ns...is there a way to do that by default!? like the main ns!? thanks for help

Moonlight 11:22, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


 * If you mean you always have to click on it when you are searching, I think you have to set Manual:$wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault SPQRobin 15:42, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

How to set up alias names for custom namespaces
Could it be possible to set Chinese alias names for custom namespaces and use them when I use Mediawiki with Chinese user interface. --Roc michael 10:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Content namespaces

 * I found that in MW 1.10.0 the updateArticleCount.php script didn't accurately update these stats (it updated the first custom NS, not all that were put into the $wgContentNamespaces array. The fix was to instead run initStats.php --update, which worked properly. Paul-lmi 17:39, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Same experience here with MW 1.8.5. -- oKto siTe -  talk  16:50, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Does this imply we have to run this each time we add namespaces? each time an article is added to anything but the first custom namespace?  how often does initStats get run on the default namespaces?  - Oo.et.oO 14:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Category Index with Custom Namespaces
After creating couple of pages with a name prefix of "CompDB:..." I figured that those pages are all shown under "C" in a category index. Obviously because they are part of the Main namespace. Thus I created a custom namespace CompDB and migrated all existing pages with maintance/namespaceDupes.php as suggested.

However, the category index didn't change and is still sorting all pages under letter "C" rather than the actual page name after the namespace prefix. Any hints?

Custom namespaces and orphaned pages
I created a custom namespace called Manual:, and since then a few pages have become orphaned (no links pointing to them). I checked the page's 'what links here' to make sure nothing linked to them. But when I went to Special:Lonelypages, the page wasn't listed. What's the catch? --CodeCat 23:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

help :: does not work
I Created a custom namespace 'Service' and would like all login users to edit the page. However, I would like to block editing for all the other namespaces.

define("NS_SERVICE",100); define("NS_SERVICE_TALK",101); $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_SERVICE] = "Service"; $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_SERVICE_TALK] = "Service_talk";

$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit']           = false;

$wgNamesspaceProtection[100] = array('editservice'); $wgGroupPermissions['user']['editservice'] = true;

However all the page are locked for editing. Any suggession will be helpful (wiki version 1.10) Thanks

a function for adding namespaces
function namespaceAdd($name) { global $wgExtraNamespaces,$wgContentNamespaces; # create wgExtraNamespaces if it doesn't exist (first time in here): if (!isset($wgExtraNamespaces)) { $wgExtraNamespaces[100] = ${name}; $wgExtraNamespaces[101] = "${name}_talk"; } else { array_push($wgExtraNamespaces,${name},"${name}_talk"); }       $wgContentNamespaces[] = sizeof($wgExtraNamespaces)-1; } This seems to work, even though i cheated and used "global". but i don't really know how to debug stuff in LocalSettings.php. It adds the extra namespaces starting at 100, adds the talk namespace and adds the namespace (not the talk namespace) to the Content Namespaces so they get counted in the wiki's stats.

so just add the code above to your LocalSettings.php then below it do: namespaceAdd("new namespace");

Oo.et.oO 18:18, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

namespaces vs. categories vs. groups
What is the actual differences between categories, name spaces and groups? Idea: Please extend editors help pages with more about this? Asset
 * I don't know, what groups are, but categories are similar to tags (assign one page to one or more topics), namespaces are more like drawers (one namespace per page). --Flominator 17:37, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well one difference is that the namespace is setup by the owner/administrator of the wiki. Categories are made by editors. - however, what I ask here is for someone to add this information at the popper place.
 * Which would be where? It's a wiki :) --Flominator 19:29, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * :) correct, anyway I suggest that there should be an implicit "intention to port advice to documentation"?

actual use
note: all the answers below can be found relatively easily by searching in google or in meta or here.

I miss some introduction to:
 * How to add a page to a namespace
 * just like any other page, only add the namespace and a colon before the name: Talk:talk namespace page. Oo.et.oO 15:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * How to see what namespaces there are
 * special:allpages look in the dropdown box is one way Oo.et.oO 15:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * What actually happens when I add a name space and changes the name of an index, say 100/101, to something else.
 * you mean how do you change the name of a namespace? change the name in LocalSettings.php and if the number assigned to the namespace remains the same (implied your first custom namespace here (100)) then the pages will "follow". Oo.et.oO 15:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there a way to see pages that are defined as if they are namesubpages
 * pages in namespaces can have subpages if allowed in LocalSettings Oo.et.oO 15:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Could I add some "tag" to a page telling that this is actually a page in an namespace
 * you can use some magicwords to find the name of the current namespace. also there are some template variables to do this. Oo.et.oO 15:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Tied to add my name space [MO:Page Name], but how can I see that this group is actually seen as part of that namespace?? Asset

Userrights for Namespaces
Which Userrights can be used for an namespace? Is it only edit, read or can I use thinks like search or createpage?

--Fightgnome 13:03, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Strange behaviour
I'm using Mediawiki 1.13

I added 2 custom namespaces:

define("NS_DRAFT", 100); define("NS_DRAFT_TALK", 101);

$wgExtraNamespaces[100] = "Bozze"; $wgExtraNamespaces[101] = "Discussioni Bozze";

For my "Draft" pages, but the relation page/talk page seems not to work as intended.


 * if I click on a "Bozze:Foo"'s discussion tag, I'm brought to a REGULAR page, without the "+" tab for adding new discussions.
 * the "Discussioni "Bozze:Foo" itself has a discussion tag ,which brings me to a "Discussioni:Discussioni Bozze:Foo" page, which is a regular discussion page.
 * if i save that "Discussioni Bozze:Foo", the discussion tag still is rendered in red, as if the page dose not exist.

Is this a bug or did I do something wrong?