Manual:Namespace

What are namespaces?

Namespaces are used to divide a wiki into different areas. This can be used to stop some areas appearing in search results, to assign permissions differently in different areas and to give these areas different designs. Assigning permissions can be very important to give different groups in a wiki different areas to work in. Nevertheless

Namespaces structure and organize a wiki for these purposes:

• Rights management: To assign content to different rights and roles. For example, a company's HR department can use its own namespace to grant only Human Resources personnel access to the pages in that namespace a major reason for creating namespaces. However, flat hierarchies are recommended for wikis.

Compare namespaces to cupboards helps to make the principle clear

• Search function: To exclude pages and files in the wiki from the search.
• Design: To format pages in different wiki areas differently.

We often take the example of cupboards to make clear the principle of namespaces. There are shelves which where everyone can look at and change the contentsinside and work on something. There are locked glass-fronted cabinets which everyone glass cupboards with a lock that you can look into but only those with a key can change the contents. Finally, there are locked wooden cabinets and , but not everyone can handle everything. There are closed wooden cabinets with lock, then only selected people can look at them or change the contents. Every cupboard, of course, inside and work on it. And every cupboard can look different.

BlueSpice Standard Namespaces in MediaWiki

The standard installation of MediaWiki has 15 namespaces, the standard (main) namespace, and 2 pseudo namespaces, which are listed below in the table. Every page will be assigned to the main namespace, unless it is specifically assigned somewhere else.

Although the pseudo namespace are used like normal namespaces, no pages can be created and no existing pages can be changed.

Most of the pages in the namespaces are automatically generated: special Among other things, BlueSpice uses the 15 standard and two so-called pseudo namespaces from MediaWiki:

ID	Namespace	'Function'
	Media	Pseudo-namespace for uploaded images and files. Will be replaced by path of the files.
	special	Pseudo-namespace for special pages.
0	(pages)	These are given without a prefix.
1	discussion	talk page. Is created in addition to each article (also in the following namespaces) to speak about its contents. Additional tab (+).
2	user	User page. Will be created for every logged in user.
3	Benutzer_Diskussion	See Discussion.
4	[Wiki Name]	Information about the wiki or the current project. Here: BlueSpice.
5	_discussion	See Discussion.
6	file	Description of a picture and other files. Is automatically supplemented with version information and information about the occurrence of the file
7	Datei_Discussion	See Discussion.
8	MediaWiki	system messages. A complete list can be found under Special: AllMessages. Can only be changed by registered users.
9	MediaWiki_Discussion	See Discussion.
10	template	Templates can be integrated into other pages.
11	Vorlage_Diskussion	See Discussion.
12	Help	Help pages describe how to perform actions in the wiki. No clear separation from the [wiki name] namespace.
13	Hilfe_Discussion	See Discussion.
14	category	Pages can be assigned to categories, which are then accessible in this namespace.
15	Kategorie_Discussion	See Discussion.

Standard namespace: A page is assigned to the (pages) namespace, as long as no other information is given.

Pseudo namespaces: The two pseudo namespaces (medium, special) are used like normal namespaces, but neither pages can be created nor existing pages changed.

Most pages in the namespaces are created automatically:

• Special pages are generated by the system during installation

; media

• Media and image pages

when data is uploaded.

• are created by uploading a file
• User pages are created

when

• whenever a user acts

in

• on the wiki

.

• Discussion pages are

generated alongside the article they belong to.

• also created with the respective pages
• This leaves only

those

• the pages in the main namespace (pages), [

Wiki-Name

• wiki name],

templates

• template, help and category

to

• that can be freely

drawn up. All the pages belonging to an individual category can be called up using

• created. The pages for the respective categories can be requested via the special page "All pages".
  

Note: In the standard MediaWiki distribution, the names of these areas are hard coded. This means that they are set in the source code of MediaWiki and cannot be changed by users.

Call pages in namespaces

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Calling pages in the namespace

In order to To address or create a page in a particular specific namespace or, if it does not exits, to create it, simply place the namespace's name before the page name, separating them with , its name is simply placed in front of the page title and separated by a colon:

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In the example, the pipe symbol (the vertical straight line) is added to the end as well. This will then not show the namespace was also added. It has the effect that the name space can not be displayed when the link is displayed . Instead a or another text can be entered following the pipe symbol to be displayed which might be easier to read, which facilitates readability.

If you enter specify a namespace which that is not part of known to the wiki, then the page will be is created in the main standard namespace Main. The part portion of the link given reference specified as the namespace will be is then added to the title of the article rather than item and is not recognized as a label for an area label.

One namespace per page: A page can only be put in assigned to a single namespace. The same page name in a different areas creates different pagesnamespace creates a new page.

Flat structure: Namespaces are all only available on the same level, this means that an area cannot be further divided up into namespaces. Therefore the discussion pages for a namespace belong to another new namespace instead of being part of an overall discussion area.
The search function lets you restrict your search to individual namespaces.

Your

one level. H. a namespace can not have child namespaces.

Search for contents in namespaces: In the search, the scope to be included can be limited to individual namespaces.

Create own namespaces

Creating Even creating your own namespaces is also only possible in MediaWiki without BlueSpice only with access to the scripts.

In BlueSpice you can create additional namespaces using namespace management.

Organize content without namespaces

However, one can use the namespace syntax and so simulate namespaces within the main namespace by giving the pages that should belong to a specific area the prefix with a colon attached to the name. The general advantages syntax of the namespaces to help simulate an area in the namespace Main by prefixing the pages of a desired area with a colon. The general benefits of using namespaces are preserved. In this way,

So it is possible to use pages that have with the same name in different "spacesrooms" and so get thus let different groups working in one work on a wiki. As Since these own "namespace" prefixes you create are actually a part of the page name, one you can search in now display all pages within this in a "namespace" by simply searching for the prefix in the search field.

Show all pages within

Since you can organize pages across categories and subpages, you should start by understanding how to manage the content in your wiki.

You can visualize this for example with the BlueSpice draw.io Plugin directly in BlueSpice and discuss it with your team.

All pages of a namespace

It is possible to showing all the pages within a namespace:

• Call up the Special page "All pages"

• Leave the text boxes empty

• Choose a namespace and click on "Go"

Table of namespaces

Namespace	Function
Media	Pseudo namespace for uploaded images and files. It is replaced by the path of the file.
Special	Pseudo namespace for special pages.
(Main) Normal pages	These are given without prefix.
Talk	Talk pages. These are created alongside articles (including in the namespaces that follow) to give a space for the contents to be discussed. Additional tab (+).
User	User pages. These are created for each logged on user.
User talk	Cf. talk.
[Wiki-Name]	Data concerning the wiki or the project involved. Here: BlueSpice.
[Wiki-Name]_Talk	Cf. talk.
Image	Description of an image or other file. Information about the version and the uses of the file is automatically included.
File_talk	Cf. talk.
MediaWiki	System notifications. A complete list is available at Special:AllMessages. This can only be edited by users who are logged on.
MediaWiki_Talk	Cf. talk.
Template	Templates can be included in other pages.
Template_talk	Cf. talk.
Help	Help pages are there to describe how to get things done in the wiki. There is no clear division of contents between this and the [Wiki-Name] namespace.
Help_talk	Cf. talk.
Category	Pages can be assigned categories which are then accessible in this namespace.
Category_talk	Cf. talk.

The display of all pages of a namespace is possible:

• Special Page "All Pages"
• Leave input field empty
• Select namespace and click "Apply"
  

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