Thread:Project:Support desk/How-to change name of the "Talk" namespace?/reply (6)

BTW, If you really wanted to change the name of the namespaces, as opposed to merely how they display on the tab, it could be done in local settings for any custom namespaces and I'm pretty sure you could change the standard namespaces the same way - or you could set aliases. Then you could use  in links (in place of   and similarly for the talkspaces that correspond to namespaces other than main, thus   for the talk page of for Foo in the Bar namespace). In this case you would have all odd numbered namespaces with "journal" in the name in place of "talk". An alias would be best for this as it would avoid changing something that is standard across all english langauge wikis. This doesn't sound like what you want to do but it is the question you originally asked. ;-)