Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceNamespaceManager

What is BlueSpiceNamespaceManager?

The Namespace manager allows a user with administrative rights to create, delete and rename namespaces and to change the settings of these namespaces. The interface for the user manager is provided by the extension BlueSpiceNamespaceManager.

Accessing the Namespace manager

BlueSpiceNamespaceManager displays information about the namespaces that are defined on the wiki. It also allows for creating, deleting and renaming namespaces, as well as chaning its settings.

Where to find the BlueSpiceNamespaceManager?

BlueSpiceNamespaceManager is availble from the right navigation, from "Global actions" tab, under "Management", or by directly accessing Special:NamespaceManger.

The functionality of BlueSpiceNamespaceManager The navigation link to the Namespace manager is located under Global actions > Management. This link opens the page Special:NamespaceManager.

Namespace manager

Creating a namespace

Every namespace that exist on the wiki, has a corresponding talk namespace, eg. namespace Template has talk namespace Template_talk. Talk namespaces are ment to hold the discussions on the topics of the main namespace.

Basic functionality allows for: Creating new namespaces. New namespace can be added by clicking on

To create a namespace:

1. Click the "Plus" icon

above

1. at the

table containing

1. top of the

namespaces

1. page.

In the

1. A dialog

that

1. opens

, enter

1. .
2. Enter the name for the new namespace and select

desired

1. the namespace options.
   
   

   Creating a

new namespace will automatically create a corresponding diskusssion namespace for it. ID of the new namespace cannot be choosen, it will be

1. namespace
2. You can activate the following options:
   1. Subpages: namespace can contain subpages (MediaWiki functionality)
   2. Content namespace: needs to be checked if users will create wiki pages in this namespace (MediaWiki functionality). See also mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ContentHandler.
   3. The remaining options activate a number of extensions for the namespace: CategoryCheck, Secured page assignments, PageTemplates, Visual editor, Rating, Recommendations, ReadConfirmation, Semantic MediaWiki, Approval.

The corresponding talk namespace for the new namespace is automatically created. The ID of each namespace is assigned automatically based on wiki settings and existing namespace IDs.

Editing and deleting a namespace

- namespace

Editing a namespace: A namespace can be edited by clicking on the "wrench" icon

,

in the table row or above the table

,

when a namespace is selected.

Names of talk namespaces or of system namespaces (File, MediaWiki) cannot be changed.

Deleting a namespace

The button can be used to delete a selected namespace. System namespaces and namespaces not created in the manager can not be deleted. You will be warned that you are about to delete the Namespace for good. If there are articles already in your namespace, you can choose what happens to them:

• they are deleted,
• they are moved to the mainspace,
• they are moved to the mainspace with a suffix "(from )"

Note: it is not possible to separately delete a discussion namespace, as this is associated with the corresponding custon namespace.

See also

Our reference page. : Only custom (user created) namespaces can be deleted.

After clicking on the delete icon, a dialog with the delete options appears.

Deleting a namespace

• Will be deleted: deletes the pages in this namespace together with the namespace
• Will be moved into "(Pages)": moves the pages of this namespace into the main namespace
• Will be moved into "(Pages)" with the suffix "(from [namespace name])": moves and appends the pages with "from [namespace]"

Talk namespaces are deleted with their corresponding namespace and cannot be deleted separately.

Related info

• Reference:BlueSpiceNamespaceManager