Namespaces

Namespaces in Mediawiki are special page name prefixes defined by your specific wiki's system administrator that allow separation of content in the wiki. You can search within specific namespaces in the wiki and system administrators can set edit privileges per namespace.

The Main namespace has no page name prefix (eg Main page and Example page). This is by default the only namespace the search box searches. Users can change this default in their own Special:Preferences settings.

The Help: namespace contains all pages with names that start with the prefix "Help:" (eg Help:Editing and Help:Table) and is by default only searched if you check the "Help:" box in any search results page and hit search again.

The MediaWiki: namespace contains all pages with names that start with the prefix "MediaWiki:" (eg MediaWiki:Sidebar and MediaWiki:Common.css) and primarily controls the wiki's interface prose and style so this namespace is by default only editable by wiki administrators.

For system administration details on Mediawiki's namespace feature, see http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace