Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@home.nl> wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces >> >> Note that namespaces with an ID of 100 or higher are specific to enwiki >> and may have different names or not be used at all on other wikis. To >> get an accurate list for another wiki, ask that wiki's api.php . > > The same is pretty much true for all namespaces. There's no guarantee > that any namespaces other than main will have the same names on other > wikis. To ensure that, you need to use the canonical name if one > exists (it's helpfully provided in the API result . . . actually, what > does it mean that "Portal" and "Portal talk" are canonical? shouldn't > there be no canonical attribute if the namespace is custom?).
Agree. Portal and Portal talk could still be acceptable, since the namespace ids 100-101 are more or less reserved for portals across the wikis. What is scaryier is seeing <ns id="102" canonical="Cookbook"> on enwikibooks whereas the same ns 102 mean Wikiproject on some pedias. Since the API provides namespacealiases linked to the id, not to the "informal canonical name" I see no reason to keep the canonical parameter on the extra ns. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
