This is because in Setup.php, $wgExtraNamespaces is added into the list of canonical namespaces *before* the extension functions are called. If you really need to have setup occur using $wgExtensionFunctions, you need to add your extra namespaces to $wgCanonicalNamespaces as well as $wgExtraNamespaces.
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Walker <mwal...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Morning All, > > Need some help / a duck [1]. > > Fundraising pushed some patches yesterday which introduced two new > namespaces; CNBanner and CNBanner_talk. Ideally these would only be present > on 'infrastructure' wikis that actually host banner content (so meta, test, > betameta) however I've been unable to figure out how to do this. > > The root cause of my difficulty is that it appears that I am unable to > create new namespaces in post initialization hooks -- > e.g. $wgExtensionFunctions. Am I missing something like a function call to > make post init creation of namespaces work; or is it just not supported > anymore [2]? > > Alternatively; is there a method to 'hide' namespaces similar to how we can > 'hide' special pages? > > Any other random ideas? > > If you're curious; we needed the new namespaces to support a 'scratch' > space for translations to happen before we moved them into the highly > protected MediaWiki namespace. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging > [2] I had some code in 1.20 that created a namespace via a > wgExtensionFunctions hook that I recall working does not > > -- > ~Matt Walker > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
