Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, O. O. <olson...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Thanks Daniel. I had not understood the meaning of NS0. Anyway I found >> the details of NS0 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NS0 >> However this confuses me even more. > > Pages on the English Wikipedia that start with any of the following > prefixes are *not* in the main namespace (ns0): > > Talk: > User: > User talk: > Wikipedia: > Wikipedia talk: > File: > File talk: > MediaWiki: > MediaWiki talk: > Template: > Template talk: > Help: > Help talk: > Category: > Category talk: > Portal: > Portal talk: > Special: > > All pages that do not start with one of these special prefixes are > automatically in namespace 0. To check the namespace number of a page > if you're uncertain, you can view the page source and check the body > element's classes. namespace 0 pages will have the class "ns-0". > Other pages will have some other number; for instance, "Talk:" pages > will have "ns-1", because "Talk:" is namespace 1. "User:" is 2, "User > talk:" is 3, etc.
Note that some namespaces such as WP: or Image: not explicit on the list above are aliases for them. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
