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Namespaces are indicated in page titles by prefixing the page name with <code><nowiki><namespace>:</nowiki></code>, so the prefix <tvar name=ns><code>{{NAMESPACE}}:</code></tvar> in this page's title (<tvar name=fullname><code>{{FULLPAGENAME}}</code></tvar>) indicates that this page is in the <tvar name=ns-1><code>{{NAMESPACE}}</code></tvar> namespace. Each namespace is identified by a number and a name, which can be translated and can also have some aliases.  A page whose name is ''not'' prefixed by a namespace lies in the [[<tvar name=mainspace>#blank-ns</tvar>|mainspace]]. Note, however, that colons and prefixes can also appear in page titles ''without'' indicating a namespace: the page <tvar name=foo><code>Foo:{{PAGENAME}}</code></tvar> is a page located in the mainspace because the namespace “Foo” does not exist. Similarly the page <tvar name=nsfoo><code>{{NAMESPACE}}:Foo:{{PAGENAME}}</code></tvar> is in the “<tvar name=ns>{{NAMESPACE}}</tvar>” namespace. == Standard namespaces ==   The standard MediaWiki installation has sixteen namespaces that can contain user-generated content; there are also two special namespaces that contain pages created “on the fly” by the MediaWiki software. The standard namespaces are organized in pairs, with each pair containing a “subject namespace” and a “discussion namespace.” The namespaces are numbered from zero such that all subject namespaces have even indices and all talk namespaces have odd indices. </translate> {{Anchor|ns-media}} <translate> ==== Media ====   This namespace is used for direct linking to media files: the link <tvar name=1><code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[Media:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code></tvar> links to just the image rather than the image description page, which would be <tvar name=2><code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[:File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|:{{ns:6}}:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code></tvar>. ==== Special ====  </translate> {{main|Help:Special pages}} <translate>  This namespace is used to group [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Special pages</tvar>|special pages]], reports and interfaces that are generated “on demand” by MediaWiki and that are not directly editable. It is not possible to create pages in this namespace except by modifying or extending the MediaWiki software. </translate> {{Anchor|blank-ns|Main}} ==== {{int|blanknamespace}} ==== <translate>  The namespace that has no prefix separated by a colon. Commonly called the “main namespace” or “mainspace”. This namespace typically contains the bulk of the {{<tvar name=1>ll|Manual:$wgContentNamespaces</tvar>|content pages}} in a wiki. This namespace generally has no special properties. ==== Talk ====  </translate> {{main|Help:Talk pages}} <translate>  The “<tvar name=1>{{ns:1}}</tvar>” namespace is the discussion namespace attached to the mainspace. 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The project namespace will be listed immediately after the User talk namespace. On some wiki farms, the name "Meta" may be used for this namespace. <translate> ==== Project talk ====   This is a talk namespace that is normally used for discussions related to the associated project pages. It has no special properties. ==== File ====  </translate> {{main|Help:Images}} [[Image:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|right]] <translate>  The “<tvar name=1>{{ns:6}}</tvar>” namespace is used to store metadata for images, videos, sound files and other media accessed via the “<tvar name=2>{{ns:-2}}</tvar>” namespace. Each file has a corresponding page in the “<tvar name=3>{{ns:6}}</tvar>” namespace, which is often used to hold licensing data. Linking ''directly'' to a page in this namespace instead includes the media file inline in the page: <tvar name=4><code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{ns:6}}<nowiki>:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|right]]</nowiki></code></tvar> produces the image to the right. 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It has no special properties.</translate> <translate> See [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents</tvar>|Help namespace content]].</translate> <translate> ==== Help talk ====   This is a talk namespace that is normally used for discussions related to the associated help pages. It has no special properties. ==== Category ====  </translate> {{main|Help:Categories}} <translate> The “<tvar name=1>{{ns:14}}</tvar>” namespace contains [[<tvar name=help-categories>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories</tvar>|categories]], dynamic lists of other pages.</translate> <translate> To facilitate this, linking ''directly'' to a category page does not output an inline link, but instead includes the page into the associated category page.</translate> <translate> So the code <code><nowiki>[[</nowiki><tvar name=2>{{ns:14}}</tvar><nowiki>:Help]]</nowiki></code> causes a category link to appear at the bottom of the page (at the bottom in the box marked “<tvar name=int-pagecategories>{{int|Pagecategories}}</tvar>”).</translate> <translate> Clicking on that link takes you to the category page, where this page is visible in the category list.</translate> <translate> To create an inline link to a category page, you need to add a colon to the front of the namespace: <tvar name=3><code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>:{{ns:14}}:Help<nowiki>]]</nowiki></code></tvar> produces <tvar name=2>[[:{{ns:14}}:Help]]</tvar>.</translate> <translate> See <tvar name=1>{{ll|Help:Categories}}</tvar> for more details on category link syntax.</translate> <translate> ==== Category talk ====   This is a talk namespace that is normally used for discussions related to the associated category pages. It has no special properties. ==Localisation==  </translate> <translate> Namespace names and aliases can be localized by developers.</translate> <translate> To request the localization of namespace names, please [<tvar name=url>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MediaWiki-Internationalization</tvar> file a MediaWiki internationalization task] at <tvar name=phab>{{ll|Phabricator}}</tvar>.</translate> <translate> In the description of the task, you should provide translations of all the namespaces in the table to the right, as well as any additional namespaces on your wiki (such as "Module" or "Gadget").</translate> <translate>  If the site's language is Chinese, then namespace names are translated only when the content is converted and there is no <tvar name=1><code>__<nowiki/>NOTITLECONVERT__</code></tvar> or <tvar name=2><code>__<nowiki/>NOTC__</code></tvar> or [[<tvar name=3>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic words</tvar>|magic words]] on a page. ===Renaming namespaces===  </translate> {| class="wikitable" width=0 style=float:{{dir|{{pagelang}}|left|right}} |- !{{hl2}}|<translate> Number</translate> !{{hl2}}|<translate> Canonical name</translate> !{{hl2}}|<translate> Localized name</translate> |- | -2 || Media || <translate> Media</translate> |- | -1 || Special || <translate> Special</translate> |- | 0 || (Main) || {{ns:0}} |- | 1 || Talk || <translate> Talk</translate> |- | 2 || User || <translate> User</translate> |- | 3 || User talk || <translate> User talk</translate> |- | 4 || Project || <translate> Project</translate> |- | 5 || Project talk || <translate> Project talk</translate> |- | 6 || File || <translate> File</translate> |- | 7 || File talk || <translate> File talk</translate> |- | 8 || MediaWiki || <translate> MediaWiki</translate> |- | 9 || MediaWiki talk || <translate> MediaWiki talk</translate> |- | 10 || Template || <translate> Template</translate> |- | 11 || Template talk || <translate> Template talk</translate> |- | 12 || Help || <translate> Help</translate> |- | 13 || Help talk || <translate> Help talk</translate> |- | 14 || Category || <translate> Category</translate> |- | 15 || Category talk || <translate> Category talk</translate> |} <translate> Namespace names can be translated into languages other than English and individual namespaces can be renamed, as set by a wiki's system admins (using [[Namespace manager]]).</translate> <translate> These names are known as the 'localized' namespace names.</translate> <translate> However, all namespaces have a 'canonical name', the original English name which will work on any installation of MediaWiki.</translate> <translate> So linking to [[User:Foo]] will always locate the user page for the user foo, whether the wiki is in French (where the localized name would be [[:Utilisateur:Foo]]), Russian ([[:Участник:Foo]]), or Hindi ([[:सदस्य:Foo]]).</translate> <translate>  The canonical namespace names are given in the table to the right along with their localized names on this wiki. </translate> {{Anchor|ns-aliases}} <translate> ===Namespace aliases===  </translate> <translate> On some wikis there are also namespace ''aliases'': alternative names that will also be resolved to the localised names.</translate> <translate> For instance, a wiki might define "T" as an alias for {{ns:10}}, such that typing [[T:Foo]] is equivalent to [[{{ns:10}}:Foo]], saving a few characters and seconds.</translate> <translate> An actual example would be on the [[wikipedia:|English Wikipedia]], where "WP" is an alias for {{ns:4}}, which is the namespace "Wikipedia".</translate> <translate>  By default, "<tvar name=1>Image</tvar>" is an alias for <tvar name=2>{{ns:6}}</tvar>, so <tvar name=3><code><nowiki>[[Image:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]</nowiki></code></tvar> is equivalent to <tvar name=4><code><nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{ns:6}}<nowiki>:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg]]</nowiki></code></tvar>. ===Custom namespaces===  </translate> :''<translate> See <tvar name=1>{{ll|Manual:Using custom namespaces}}</tvar> for more information.</translate>'' <translate>  Some wikis may wish to organize their content in ways that do not fit into this standard set of namespaces. A wiki may define additional namespaces to facilitate this; these namespaces behave exactly like normal namespaces, and generally have indices greater than or equal to 100. These custom namespaces generally have no special properties. ==Identifying namespaces==   There are a number of ways by which the namespace of a particular page can be identified:  ;Magic words  The [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic word</tvar>|magic word]] <tvar name=2><code><nowiki>{{NAMESPACE}}</nowiki></code></tvar> returns the value of the namespace the page is in.  To refer to another namespace, use {{<tvar name=1>tmpl|0=<code>{{((}}ns:<$1>{{))}}</code></tvar>|name}} (e.g. <tvar name=2><code><nowiki>{{ns:Project}}</nowiki></code></tvar>), or <tvar name=3><code><nowiki>{{SUBJECTSPACE}}</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>{{TALKSPACE}}</nowiki></code></tvar> to refer to the namespace paired with the current one.</translate> ;JavaScript <translate> The JavaScript variable <tvar name=1><code>wgCanonicalNamespace</code></tvar> contains the full namespace name.</translate> <translate> The variable <tvar name=1><code>wgNamespaceNumber</code></tvar> contains the numerical index of the namespace.</translate> <translate>  ;CSS </translate> <translate> The <tvar name=1>{{tag|body|open}}</tvar> tag of the HTML page output is given two CSS classes that vary by namespace: A class <tvar name=2><code>ns-#</code></tvar>, where <tvar name=3>#</tvar> is the index of the namespace, and <tvar name=4><code>ns-XXX</code></tvar>, where <tvar name=5>XXX</tvar> is "<tvar name=6><code>subject</code></tvar>" for all {{<tvar name=7>ll|Manual:Namespace#Subject and talk namespaces</tvar>|subject namespaces}}, "<tvar name=8><code>special</code></tvar>" for pages in the <tvar name=9>{{ns:-1}}</tvar> namespace, and "<tvar name=10><code>talk</code></tvar>" for {{<tvar name=7>ll|Manual:Namespace#Subject and talk namespaces</tvar>|talk namespaces}}.</translate> <translate> So CSS code such as the following can be used to change the appearance of an object based on its namespace:</translate> <syntaxhighlight lang="css"> .ns-subject a { /* <translate nowrap> Almost all links on subject pages to be green.</translate> */ color: #0f0; } .ns-talk a { /* <translate nowrap> Links on talk pages to be blue.</translate> */ color: #00f; } .ns-3 a { /* <translate nowrap> and links on user talk pages to be red</translate> */ color: #f00; } </syntaxhighlight> <translate> You can get a complete list of all namespace names of a MediaWiki installation from the Search results page 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