Manual:Namespace

What are namespaces

What is a namespace?

Namespaces are used to divide a wiki into different areas.

Namespaces structure and organize a wiki for these purposes:

Rights management: To assign content to different rights and roles

A namespace defines an area in a wiki. You can recognize a namespace by the namespace prefix in the page title:

<namespace>:Page title

In a wiki, you will find predefined namespaces. In addition, wiki administrators can create custom namespaces as needed.

There are certain aspects of namespaces that are important to consider before creating a namespace. It is therefore important to understand the characteristics of namespaces and the reasons for using a custom namespace.

Characteristics of a namespace

• Rights management
   : Each namespace can contain its own user rights/roles assignments. However, we recommend flat user hierarchies for wikis.

• Search function
   : Search can be limited to individual namespaces.

• Design
   : Namespaces can be styled differently.

• Flat structure
   :Namespaces cannot contain other namespaces

• One namespace per page
   : The same page name in a different namespace creates a new page.
• Special namespaces:
  • Main (Pages) - No namespace prefix in page titles
  • Special pages (Special)
  • Images (File)
  • Documents (Media)
  • Discussions (Talk)

Reasons for using namespaces

• Rights management: To assign different user permissions to separate content. 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 . Here, rights management is the main reason for creating namespaces. However, flat hierarchies are recommended for wikis.
• 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 use the example of cupboards to make clear the principle of namespaces. There are shelves where and everyone can look inside at them and work on something. There are glass cupboards with a lock that you can look into, but not everyone can handle everything. There only some people have the key to change the contents. Then there are closed wooden cabinets with lock, then locks and only selected people can look inside and work on itin them. And every cupboard each of these cupboards can look different.

BlueSpice Standard Namespaces

differently.

Note: While users cannot view the pages or files in a namespace for which they have no access rights, they will still see the pages and files listed on the wiki's special pages. They will also see the page names in the search results if the namespace has not been excluded from the search.

BlueSpice standard namespaces

Among other things, BlueSpice uses, among others, the 15 standard and the 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	talk page. Is created in addition to each article (also in the following namespaces) to speak about its contents. Additional tab (+).
2 user	User	User page. Will be created for every logged in user.
3	Benutzer_Diskussion	See Discussion. User talk	Cf. talk
4	[Wiki-Name]	Information about the wiki or the current project. Here: BlueSpice.
5	[Wiki-Name]_discussion Talk	See DiscussionCf. talk
6 file	Image	Description of a picture and other files. Is automatically supplemented with version information and information about the occurrence of the file
7	DateiFile_Discussion Talk	See DiscussionCf. talk
8	MediaWiki	system messages. A complete list can be found under Special: AllMessages. Can only be changed by registered users.
9	MediaWiki_Discussion Talk	See DiscussionCf. talk
10 template	Template	Templates can be integrated into other pages.
11	VorlageTemplate_Diskussion talk	See DiscussionCf. talk
12	Help	Help pages describe how to perform actions in the wiki. No clear separation from the [wiki name] namespace.
13	HilfeHelp_Discussion talk	See DiscussionCf. talk
14 category	Category	Pages can be assigned to categories, which are then accessible in this namespace.
15	KategorieCategory_Discussion talk	See DiscussionCf. talk

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

Pseudo namespaces: The two pseudo namespaces (mediumMedia, specialSpecial) are used like normal namespaces, but neither pages can be created nor existing pages changedyou cannot edit them or add pages to them.

Most pages in the namespaces are created automatically:

• Special pages are generated by the system during installation.
• Media and image pages are created by uploading a during file uplad.
• User pages are created whenever a user acts on the wiki.
• Discussion pages are also created with the respective corresponding pages.

This leaves only the

pages in the main namespace (pages

default namespaces (Main), [wiki name],

template

Template,

help and category that

Help and Category namespaces where pages can be freely created.

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

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Calling pages in the

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

Accessing pages in a namespace

To address access or create a page in a specific namespace, 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 (straight line) was also added. It has the effect that the name space can not namespace won't be displayed when for the link is displayed or another text can be entered, which facilitates readabilitylabel.

If you specify provide a namespace that is not known to the wiki, the page is created in the standard namespace Main. The portion of the reference specified as the namespace is then added to the title of the item instead and is not recognized as an area a namespace label.

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

Flat structure: Namespaces are only available on 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 namespacesCreating a new namespace

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

In BlueSpice you You can create additional namespaces using namespace management.

Organize

by using the Namespace manager under Global actions > Management > Namespace manager. The menu item "Category manager" loads the page Special:NamespaceManager.

Organizing content without namespaces

However, one If you simply want to group pages in your wiki without the need for controlling access rights, you can use the syntax of the namespaces to help simulate an area a namespace in the namespace Main by prefixing . Simply prefix the pages of a desired area that belong to a group with a colon. The general benefits of using namespaces are preserved. So name and a colon. If no namespace with this name exists, the prefix simply becomes part of the page name.

That way, it is possible to use pages with the same name in different "rooms" the main namespace and thus let different groups work on a wikicontent "sets". Since these own "namespace" prefixes are part of the page name, you can now display all pages in a "simulated namespace " by searching for the prefix in the search field.

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

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

All Viewing all pages of a namespace

The display of You can view all pages of in a namespace is possible:

1. Go to the Special

Page

1. page "All Pages"
2. Leave the input field empty
3. Select

namespace and click "Apply"

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1. a namespace from the Namespace drop-down menu
2. Click "Go"
   

Related info

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