WikiIndex:Namespace conventions

Not to be confused with WikiIndex:Naming Conventions.

Template:TOCright WikiIndex:Namespace Conventions — this WikiIndex wiki has many built-in 'namespaces', because of the MediaWiki software. Here is how we are . . . or are not using them.

Main

• All wiki article entries
• Wiki people pages (and users with RealNames)
• Normal articles related to with WikiSphere in general, such as OptOut
• Everything not mentioned below.

WikiIndex:

• 'Meta' pages, about the policies and workings of WikiIndex, such as WikiIndex:AntiSpamMeasures

User:

Used differently to, say Wikipedia. Since automatic signatures link here, see the redirect at User:MarkDilley. It goes to MarkDilley, which has a link back to his user talk page.

User talk:

The user talk page is the only place where notification of messages will work, so we do use this space for that purpose. It's useful for redirect the talk page for each person from the main namespace to the user talk namespace.

Category:

Categories go here. [[Category:Wiki]] can be placed in an article to add it to the wiki category in the same manner as keywords.

Template:

Templates go here.

Image:

Images go here, particularly:

• Uploaded Logos
• Uploaded People pictures
  • Uploaded Charictures

Help:

• So far unused
  • need to think about how this works: Help - is it a hard wired page like Recent Changes? Should it be a portal for the Help namespace?
    • No, it's not. The "Help namespace portal" is Help:Contents
      • If the Help page is not hardwired - then how is the help namespace portal determined? ... Just went to check on a brand new wiki and there is nothing in the Help:Contents space, so it seems to me that it is up to us to figure out, right? MarkDilley
    • MediaWiki:Sidebar determines what pages appear in the navigation box — all links, including Help:Contents are therefore editable by admins and can be added, removed or made to point anywhere. Help: is just a namespace like any other and, unless you've downloaded documentation from a MediaWiki site and posted it there, will be initially empty. --Carlb 11:34, 15 December 2006 (EST)