Manual talk:$wgNamespacesWithSubpages

Example to get this working
ftp down your LocalSettings.php file

add the following 2 lines of code:

$wgExtraNamespaces = array(100 => "YOURNAMESPACE", 101 => "YOURNAMESPACE_talk"); $wgNamespacesWithSubpages[100] = true;

upload the LocalSettings.php file

create the following as the parent page name: YOURNAMESPACE:Home

then create the following as a childpage name: YOURNAMESPACE:Home/Child1

this will embed a simple < YOURNAMESPACE:Home link at the top of the child. Unfortunately, the page name is mucked up with the namespace, colon, parent, and slash.

Problems with subpages in the main namespace
site: wikademia.org -> subpages are not working in main namespace... some sort of error. If you take a look and can tell me how to fix it, then 1000 thanks. Thanks.


 * I don't see any errors. —Emufarmers(T 11:02, 4 April 2009 (UTC)


 * http://wikademia.org/Scratch_9/Test goes to missing.html ... subpages do work in user space and other namespaces, like at http://wikademia.org/Meta:Scratch/Scratch ...


 * I would guess you have a rewrite rule that doesn't always allow for slashes in titles. —Emufarmers(T 02:32, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * in .htaccess? I don't even see a .htaccess ... or somewhere else?

Disable subpages for all namespaces
Hello, will this directive disable subpages for all namespaces?

$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array;

--89.185.250.132 16:04, 6 June 2010 (UTC)


 * It should. --Bachsau 10:44, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

?
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MAIN] = true;
 * 1) Enable subpages in the main namespace

Nothing in mediawiki 1.6.

Why disable by default?
Why are most of the core (non-talk) namespaces disabled by default? Wikipedia has most of them enabled. And the only reason they disable it for the mainspace is for encyclopedia structure. For a general-purpose wiki I see even less of a reason to disable subpages. 65.87.26.122 01:23, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The distinction dates back to pre r1284 which is the dark ages. Back in those days, mediawiki's default config much more reflected how things were wanted on wikipedia instead of wikipedia having custom config in cases where they wanted weird things. Thus I'd guess its mostly for historical reasons, and no one has ever changed it. Bawolff (talk) 04:02, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

From what I can tell from InitialiseSettings.php, it's usually: It looks to me like NS_PROJECT and NS_HELP would be good candidates for a default setting of true. So, I have filed it as 42004. Leucosticte (talk) 09:45, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

No more than 200 namespaces OR no namespace with an index greater than 200?
The above example of how to go about enabling this for all namespaces claims, "This assumes you have no more than 200 namespaces." Is it accurate to say "no more than 200 namespaces" OR would "no namespace with an index greater than 200" be more accurate? I ask because although we only have 21 namespaces on our wiki, we have one with an index of 500 (501 for talk). -- Thanks, ShoeMaker  ( Contributions &bull; Message )   16:48, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

consequences of disabling after having it be enabled
I want to disable the feature of $wgNamespacesWithSubpages so that it will not apply one of my nav templates to subpages. I am worried that it will have more of an effect on my wiki then I care to deal with. Are there any major consequences/issues that will occur if i disable $wgNamespacesWithSubpages after having it be enabled for the entires wiki's life?
 * I guess that with "disabling $wgNamespacesWithSubpages" you mean that you want to set it to an empty array.
 * That would have the effect that you cannot create subpages in any namespace. The question then is what then happens with those subpages that already are there? I guess (unchecked) that they are not immediately deleted *sigh* only because you set that value. However, what I could imagine is that you might then have problems editing them. To be on the save side, I would first move all subpages to a place, which also is valid after disabling $wgNamespacesWithSubpages by setting it to an empty array. Meaning: Move them so that they no longer are subpages and then disable $wgNamespacesWithSubpages. --88.130.107.208 10:14, 22 June 2014 (UTC)