Project namespace is the namespace where discussion about Wikipedia articles or other Wikipedia pages happen. A shortcut for them is WP....

convention that the name is prefixed with "Template:", assigning it to that namespace. Therefore you can start them like any other wiki page. Templates are...

Except in "main" namespace (="article namespace"), where the subpage feature has been disabled in the English Wikipedia, subpages are pages separated with...

Category namespace and Template:reflist would be in the Template namespace. Problems may arise for a variety of reasons in non-article namespaces. These...

The number of pages in each namespace; data as of 05:00, 24 March 2019 (UTC)....

Main article namespace (e.g., "Cat"), you must put a colon (:) in front of the name, thus: {{:Cat}} If the source is in the Template namespace (e.g., "Template:BBC")...

the babel boxes. Current consensus is that userboxes (excluding the standard Babel templates and the actual code) belong only in the user namespace....

is a Wikipedia page with no links from other pages in the main article namespace. If you think an article is orphaned, add {{orphan|date=July 2026}} to...

on Wikipedia. These words are used on talk pages, and in the Wikipedia namespace. Most of these words should not be used in articles. Many of these words...

able to move pages in any namespace (except category), and even able to move pages from one namespace to another. Cross-namespace moving is needed when a...

determine the type and quality of material that is acceptable in the main namespace. Fact checking is time-consuming and not particularly rewarding. It is...

use of the MediaWiki software and its namespaces. There are countless other ways of configuring MediaWiki namespaces and one can call them whatever one wishes...

useful sometimes. To make a new message, start a page in the Template namespace. The title should be "Template:", then the name of your message. The page...

whether for a specific skin or for everyone Edit pages in the MediaWiki namespace, which affects the text in the wiki's user interface Only existing administrators...

example user). Details about you generally should not go in the main namespace (where the articles are), which is only for content suitable for an encyclopedia...

related to project maintenance. They are found in the Special: namespace, a virtual namespace whose pages lack corresponding talk pages. They are not written...

(disambiguation)]] redirect, to make it clear that the link is on purpose. Links from namespaces other than articles are allowed, but still may need to be disambiguated...

reliable, third-party, published sources. (An article is a page in the main namespace. Most other pages, such as Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, do not...

wrote a comment on pages in the Talk:, User talk:, and Wikipedia talk: namespaces. To sign a post, type four tildes, like this: ~~~~. For example, if User:Example...

Main article namespace (e.g., "Cat"), you must put a colon (:) in front of the name, thus: {{:Cat}} If the source is in the Template namespace (e.g., "Template:BBC")...

created in a user's userspace. Anyone can create a WikiProject in their own namespace. Let's say you are user:Example and want to create a WikiProject about...

corrections to music-related articles. Anything you don't like? My user talk namespace count is a little too high for my liking, I'm a bit chatty. :) What are...

unprotect and change protected pages, including those in the MediaWiki namespace, and other users' personal JavaScript or CSS (.js or .css) files. Requests...

blocks also exist, preventing a user or IP from editing a specific page or namespace. The changes some users make are not constructive and do not help the...

Shortcut WP:UWWP:UW User warnings are meant to guide good-faith testers and dissuade bad-faith vandals. You may place any of the warning templates listed...

with the low number of contributions to the Wikipedia namespace. Pages in the Wikipedia namespace are the core of various community discussions. While...

Shortcuts WP:ADMINPS WP:GOVPS Administrative namespaces are intended for use by editors or by automated tools for the administration and governance of...

in Wikipedia:Namespace.--Masha Ashner (talk) 14:59, 14 June 2009 (UTC) How many edits would you like to see in the "Wikipedia" namespace? Are you stating...

of days ago. Currently he has around 2,539 edits with 86% to article namespace! Not only that, he has created at least 122 articles and 19 redirects...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: The target is not a main namespace article but a Wikipedia project page. The correct redirect is WP:BE850...

the project page and helped to mastermind it's move into the Wikipedia: namespace, as well as it's advertising around the Simple English Wikipedia. It now...

aren't. I think some users should spend more time in helping in the main namespace, rather than discussing how bad or good something is. Anything in particular...

edits (which, in itself, is a low number), less than 500 are from other namespaces -- and 104 of them are editing User:Meganmccarty/Status. Of projectspace...

how-to guide about debugging Lua modules Module:Sandbox provides a pseudo-namespace for experimenting with Lua modules WP:Lua requests – requests for Lua-based...

proposing that Simple News is relocated to a new home in the Wikipedia: namespace to really get more people to help out. There will be many new features...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Non-controversial cleanup of bad namespace -Djsasso (talk) 20:16, 11 June 2020 (UTC) Categories: Welsh politics (edit...

metapedian, there aren't many namespace edits that I am that pleased about, simply as there aren't many. Wikipedia namespace related, though, there are a...

Wizard template due to a problem. If kept it should be moved to proper namespace. - FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 16:45, 1 November 2024 (UTC)...

for the reason: Like BE 1500, the target of this redirect is not a main namespace article but a Wikipedia project page. Also, the meaning of the target...

belong to the main namespace of Wikipedia pages (also called "article namespace") which does not include any pages in any of the namespaces below that are...

That's not the only corner you can cut: when someone wants to link to a namespace, there are easier ways to link to a page without including the prefix...

The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete.  Bad cross-namespace redirect. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:31, 18 October 2015 (UTC) Template:WikiProject...

all pages which are not articles. These include pages in the Wikipedia: namespace and templates Microsoft Proprietary AlexandreconconItalic text. The article...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: The target is not a main namespace article but a Wikipedia project page. Also, the meaning of the target...

user page. In these cases, the article is normally moved into the user namespace rather than deleted. If you believe you may be notable enough, make your...

Short of having the developers create a WP namespace solely for redirectiong to the Wikpedia namespace, Main -> Wikipedia redirects are not going to...

areas of Wikipedia maintenance. Look at your contributions to Wikipedia: namespace! You have never: reported vandalism at WP:VIP, taken part in a WP:RFD...

where editors make signed statements (such as in the Talk and User talk namespaces Refactoring has a number of uses, including: Improving the clarity and...

simple project and Wiktionary should probably be imported into it's own namespace. Like Maximillion said on IRC the quotes would probably be better served...

user/user talk edits. There is a large(-ish) number of edits to the Wikipedia namespace, but most of these are simple yes/no votes with little to no explaination...

you. This guideline also does not apply to pages in the "Wikipedia:" namespace, or Templates, etc. As with all of these guidelines, it is for the main...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Inappropriate cross-namespace redirect. Please discuss this deletion below, but keep in mind that you...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: The target is not a main namespace article but a Wikipedia project page. The correct redirect is WP:BE850...

guidelines Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categories Template namespace Style conventions Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers...

links to user pages, talk pages and templates as well as the article namespace. Because of this there may be entries still on the list that are linked...

candidates who have made most of their changes to the "User" or "User talk" namespaces. Possible candidates can file a request (ask for a vote) at the Request...

You seem to make to little edits in the mainspace compared to other namespaces. Minor or Prime 14:22, 17 November 2008 (UTC) Oppose} — Sorry, your lack...

Flcelloguy 20:26, 16 December 2005 (UTC) Oppose. Only 3 edits to actual namespace articles. Pureblade 03:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC) The above adminship discussion...

is also the cat Category:Journalists and this cats aren't for the user namespace. Speedy per QD#C1. Barras (talk) 20:44, 27 February 2009 (UTC) Delete...

more edits on the Wikipedia: namespace than in the main namespace, when he has more deletes than edits to the article namespace. While it is true that there...

Userfy - Although this is a non-standard babel userbox in the Template: namespace, I see no problem for the template to be in the creator's userspace.--≈...

candidates who have made most of their edits to the "User" or "User talk" namespaces, from that page.--AleksA ツ 15:29, 24 April 2009 (UTC) My problem was more...

local edit. Some wikis ask users to import the page to a rarely used namespace (such as MediaWiki talk) or a subpage of the page being imported, where...

April 2009 (UTC) Reviews Once again, your desire for the WP and User namespaces is not a good mark for an RFA. Focus on maturity, and quality article...

be moved to the MediaWiki namespace, or it might sound like I would be "owning" it, because it is stored in my user namespace) or creating and fixing templates...

Namespace_control states "On English Wikipedia the entire User: namespace, User talk:, Draft: and Draft talk: namespaces are automatically...

with QDs, mostly active in article space with some edits in wikipedia namespace, and overall a benefit to the project. EhJJTALK 00:14, 1 May 2010 (UTC)...

projects were to get their Wikipedia namespace redirects, then give one to every other Wikipedia in people's namespaces. That is not what we need to be thinking...

such as merging.  Delete - Unlikely redirect from mainspace to an annex namespace.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 07:08, 20 August 2022 (UTC) This request is...

deletion for the reason: Out of project scope; It must be in the user namespace Saroj Uprety (talk) 03:54, 6 December 2020 (UTC) Please discuss this request...

Patrol or Patrolling on enwiki, I say delete. We don't usually keep cross-namespace redirects like these - see WP:R#DELETE. Aranya (talk) 12:29, 4 November...

message saying 'Wikipedia:TEST'? And If I'm right it will move the WP: namespace from mainspace to the Wikipedia: one and stop new WP shortcuts from appearing...

19:08, 21 February 2009 (UTC) Cause it assumes it's a template, under the namespace of Template. You may have to put it as a template then use it.-- † CM16...

edits in his 3 months here at Simple, with a whopping 68% in the article namespace. Yotcmdr is an excellent vandalism reverter, and is an active participant...

discussion. Hello there. I would like to move Main Page into Wikipedia: namespace. The reason why I want to do it is because it is not an article, it is...

counter and Mediawiki's edit counter, you have around 29% of edits to the namespace with around 23% of other edits to your userpage. This would constitute...

Portal namespace. I tried it on my own wiki. Hydriz[Discussions needed] 15:33, 9 October 2010 (UTC) There is no consensus (now) for a Portal namespace. If...

would like to see more frequent and larger contributions to the project namespace. Unless I'm missing something, the contributions page of the candidate...

duplicates, guestbooks, essays, etc), wikipedia namespace (such as essays, etc), and the MediaWiki and Help namespace is included in the event something should...

and the fact that there was confusion about the 1.000 edits being main namespace edits, total edits, etc. Any successful request must have at least 5 votes...

guidelines Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categories Template namespace Style conventions Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers...

can see your monthly edit counts and which articles you edit in each namespace. Once this is done, I can review you in more detail. I-on/talk/book/sand...

number in namespace 1 Highest archive number in namespace 5 Highest archive number in namespace 4 (with space) and highest archive number in namespace 4 without...

gaining fulfillment by raising themselves into existence on the article namespace. Of course, editors are encouraged to garner up some courage and come...

Back to the simple.wiki: So far, I've used the undo tool (in the article namespace) more than 200 times (verify) to remove vandalism, the first time 2022...

Wikipedia namespace pages. This would implicitly allow bot activity from any approved bot. Append the {{bots}} templates used in the Wikipedia namespace with...

WikiProjects that have not yet been moved to the Wikipedia: namespace to a single User: namespace. I would support this proposal, since by placing a WikiProject...

May 2013 (UTC) FWIW, mine seems to work fine in all Talk namespaces and in Special namespace, and not elsewhere. StevenJ81 (talk) 10:31, 20 May 2013 (UTC)...

in admins as well as editors) and know a heck of a lot about MediaWiki namespace and the software generally. This is a no-brainer for me. fr33kman talk...

members on your WikiProject in your namespace, you are more than willing to propose it be moved to the Wikipedia namespace, but at this point in time, we do...

be created a Wikiproject namespace, like wikis such as the Spanish Wikipedia. This would help projects at the user namespace. Feel free to give your opinion...

English Wikipedia, pages in the main (article) namespace have a white background, but pages in other namespaces have a light blue background. This pattern...

edit notices should be consolidated in the Template:Editnotices/* pseudo namespace instead of a standalone MediaWiki page. Chenzw  Talk  15:47, 17 February...

this page for deletion for the reason: Part of the non-existant portal namespace system with no real capabilities without the portal system. - FusionSub...

translation when there's time. There are some references to the Portal and Book namespaces, which don't exist on this wiki. Can these be removed? There are also...

Editor review. 1. I have continued to try and lower my user and user talk namespaces. Before when you put both of them together, it was about 40%. Now its...

of your edit in user-related (User/User-talk) namespaces, about 220 edits are in main/Wikipedia namespaces; In comparison, I have around 80% there, Isis...

the route of simpligfying this one? - I also cannot place the en:Draft namespace. I would argue we are better off starting from scratch. Opinions? Eptalon...

"Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [1] A...

use namespace (Main) and start at WP. (all WP: shortcuts are main space articles redirected to Wikipedia: articles). For templates, use the namespace template...

04:23, 8 December 2012 (UTC) Delete Essays don't belong in the article namespace. (and non-wiki essays don't belong here at all) EVula // talk // 06:27...

note that when starting a project-namespace page, the editnotice contains a redlink to Wikipedia:Project namespace in it, which is probably something...

want to make it where you can't qd redirects from Wikipedia namespace to User namespace.--  † CR90  07:20, 23 February 2010 (UTC) ┌─────────────────────────────────┘...

Cassandra 18:24, 8 July 2008 (UTC) Do we really need to create the UT namespace? We could just have WP:MAJOR or something like that, or WP:RAMBLE (I would...

(talk) 23:25, 28 September 2020 (UTC) Page is the term we use for all namespaces. It is the generic. Article is one type of page, Wikipedia or Talk are...

nominator; the normal English article has already been moved to the draft namespace because a person other than the creator decided that the subject was not...

time to time, well-meaning new editors create articles within the Draft namespace, which we don't use here. Is there a simple way to create an edit filter...

(UTC) It happens now and then because people run bots on the Wikipedia namespace and don't realize that different wikis handle things slightly differently...

users have enough to do. You can create your own project in your user namespace. Barras (talk) 16:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC) I have to agree; a WikiProject...

that the long form "doesn't work" possibly implies that it links to the namespace, not project (which would be my understanding of those sentences). EhJJTALK...

of my work is done on the sandbox before moving it to the main article namespace, so having this as a link would be very useful. --*Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk...

Wikipedia namespace is more appropriate for this page as it isn't really a portal. It's more our guideling for schools. Also, the Portal: namespace doesn't...

though - there seem to be several pages in the Help: and Wikipedia: namespace that we (for whatever reason) haven't simplified and copied here from...

April 2008 (UTC) Actually, we have projects, just not in the "Wikipedia:" namespace. To find out more about WikiProjects, you should check out WP:PROJECT...

watchlist already. Such a project should not be created in the wikipedia namespace without full support. -- Creol(talk) 08:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC) As I have...

and Kikac Music was moved to draft because it wasn't ready for the main namespace. Another article, Mico the Best (with a lowercase t) was moved to draft...

non-Babel userboxes in the main or template: namespaces. Whether they will be ultimately allowed in the user: namespace is still uncertain." So do you think I...

software that had been customised to automatically change WP to Wikipedia in namespaces; I don't think that's right. I really appreciate your input :) Drum guy...

"Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688, T87027.) If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can...

at (http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=simple&namespace=10&name=Ma#bottom). en.wikis template is part of regular English Wikipedia...

information from the database. This time I've removed redirects in the Template namespace, as they don't need categories. Cheers, Tangotango There are currently...

the sidebar should reference a relevant system message in the MediaWiki namespace so that users who have their language preferences set to another language...

is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). You can learn more about the motivation...

For instance, a user may choose to license main namespace changes in one license and talk namespace changes in another. In addition, a user may consider...

Wikiproject (i.e. in Userspace); It can always be moved to Wikipedia: namespace once it grows sufficiently popular. --Eptalon (talk) 12:07, 14 May 2008...

too. As for the featured March, should the subpage be in the wikipedia namespace or userpace (do we have a policy on this?).--Yottie =talk= 17:30, 26 February...

Coleman (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Generally, even in the Wikipedia namespace, you should simplify it a bit before saving it. --Isis♠(talk) 23:59, 13...

members and is growing nicely. We would like to move it to the wikipedia namespace. Perhaps Wikipedia:WikiProject Collaboration any objections? any comments...

11:51, 6 July 2010 (UTC) Crat note: newbie with no edits in the main namespace --Mercy (talk) 11:56, 6 July 2010 (UTC) Just a note: en:User:Fridae'sDoom...

you can help. If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community...

March 2022 (UTC) Shouldn't .css pages be in template namespace? While it is true that namespace doesn't really matter, it is also true that src="Main...

characters (like Ǣ) in it, but this redirect is a soft redirect in the wrong namespace. Also, if we want to have a version of the template on simple, we should...

read more. [4][5] Changes later this week If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This...

(talk) 16:42, 15 September 2017 (UTC) Redirect. Delete. I hate cross-namespace redirects, but as Tbennert said, readers don't necessarily know about...

Project: space labelled "mainspace" and "namespace". No new user will need to create anything in that namespace. And our Main Page is primarily for readers...

here at Simple? If not, could we think of possibly creating a "portal" namespace and creating some? obentomusubi 00:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC) I don't think...

community should be able to spot the low number of edits to Wikipedia namespace. Chenzw  Talk  15:13, 14 May 2009 (UTC) I usually almost always assess...

article namespace to organisational namespaces, like Wikipedia or Template; they may not be as applicable to redirects to other content namespaces, like...

to create the origami portal. I realized then that there wasn't even a namespace for portals. I think that as simple becomes larger, portals will become...

Archer7 09:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC) Keep in mind that the "Portal:" namespace isn't active here (and "portal" isn't SimpEng). Take a look at en:Wikipedia:Schools'...

that I have counted), and a good portion of those edits were done to namespaces other than the Mainspace space, so that shows that you haven't done much...

navigational boxes do not have any relevant blue links to articles in the main namespace. Similar situation as Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2022/Category:New...

doesn't imply that the target page is also a category, it's just a cross-namespace redirect, (although a bad one). --Auntof6 (talk) 22:29, 13 July 2017 (UTC)...

numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and...

sure why the English Wikipedia article was moved into the Wikipedia: namespace.) Merging "IPA chart for English" into "Help:Pronunciation" – having separate...

on template documentation for example they are not articles. Page=Any namespace. Article=mainspace. -Djsasso (talk) 17:15, 12 January 2021 (UTC) I see...

as normal, but including the full namespace of the template. You can also 'force' a 'clear' of the Template: namespace by using : to precede the page name...

What have I done? 15:32, 8 June 2021 (UTC) However that is in the main namespace, which means that the .css doesnt mean anything nor is it actually a subpage...

articles linked to English articles out of 293,969 articles with the namespace of 0/main on simple). I'm guessing about 85% of the differences are fine/normal...

(talk) 01:29, 12 June 2012 (UTC) They could also be used in the Wikipedia namespace. These little code won't blow up your RAM; it'll become active when an...

pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [55] A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new...

created either as a "Simple" section of English Wikivoyage (perhaps as a namespace) or as a "Wikivoyage" section of this project. See Alemannic Wikipedia...

Wikipedia, so there should be an informational page about it in Wikipedia namespace. There is no article about Simple English Wiktionary: it's not notable...

also has an En. page since 2017 which has no links to it from the Wiki namespace (no deletion type requests exist for it). There are issues with the creator...

others not. Is there a point in keeping them around in the template namespace? Does anyone mind if I move them to userspace? I can hardcode the last...

wiki. --Hydriz (talk) 01:25, 21 October 2015 (UTC) Modules are from the "Namespace:" pulldown menu of "All pages with prefix"? Stewi101015 (talk) 04:16,...

undesirable is if an article is copied from enWP wholesale into the article namespace (i.e., it is made "live"), and then the editor starts simplifying it there...

quietly. This being said, the bulk of projects have been in the user namespace for most of the existence of the wiki. One of the reasons behind this...

articles so wouldn't make sense to be in general as general applies to all namespaces. -DJSasso (talk) 12:29, 12 November 2019 (UTC) I do think we should overhaul...

of them are community discussion pages (Wikipedia and Wikipedia talk namespace). The full list of titles is available at User:Chenzw/Unclosed font tags...

during the recent discussions on WP:RFD is creating a project in a user's namespace, and if it generates enough interest and becomes big enough, then it can...

there was no claim to notability in the article. We don't have the draft namespace here. Do you want the page to be restored to your userspace so you can...

In my mind, there are certain pages in the "Wikipedia:" (and "Help:") namespaces that we as a community should have an interest in keeping ready and accessible...

"(disambiguation)" is part of the page's name, like how Wikipedia: is a certain namespace. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:05, 23 July 2010 (UTC) I think that he is referring...

for the past few years, but no discussion. I only checked the Wikipedia namespace for 'most wanted' and looked at the first 30 results. You can look somewhere...

(talk) 05:55, 1 December 2010 (UTC) ... Why? We do not have a Wikipedia-namespace page by that name. sonia♫ 05:57, 1 December 2010 (UTC) Oh, ok. I saw the...

But if you must, combine both projects and move it into the project namespace. Synergy 12:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC) It's unfortunate that we need a project...

limit=50&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=user&target=92.2.204.70%2F16&namespace=&year=&month=-1. πr2 (talk • changes) 19:57, 9 June 2010 (UTC) (<-) Let...

think?). Is this allowed here? If so, is it everywhere or just in some wp:Namespaces? Is this documented anywhere? Thanks in advance for any guidance. Ottawahitech...

2008 (UTC) Oppose needs more interaction with policy pages and the WP/WT namespaces. fr33kman t - c 03:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC) Oppose Sorry, but I cannot...

page, despite it being called Simple talk. :) Pages in the Wikipedia namespace do need the colon. Angela 21:27, 14 May 2004 (UTC) Hello. Thank you for...

was imported in January 2018, and a quick search through the Template namespace does not seem to show a replacement template, so it doesn't really qualify...

Oppose redirect to category because it would be a redirect to a different namespace. -- Auntof6 (talk) 20:08, 18 October 2022 (UTC)  Delete If this were a...

22:07, 30 January 2009 (UTC) Bans are supposed to be preventative, so a namespace ban seems more appropriate, as that sort of editing needs to be prevented...

(UTC) User and User talk, while similar in concept, are totally different namespaces. The rules for NS:2 (user) do not always apply to NS:3. QD justification...

Someone good with templates should try to fix the template to check for the namespace (main articles, or article talk page), so that Wikipedia:Simple talk does...

The test versions of the templates and test articles are in my user namespace, and the table below will provide easy links to check them out. (I will...

version ignores red links and only considers links within the article namespace. Additionally, it resolves redirects. Further ideas and feedback are very...

(UTC) Why? What's the problem with having these few subpages in article namespace. It's only for the VGAs. Barras (talk) 16:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)...

2009 (UTC) I'll review the mediawiki documentation and the mediawiki namespace, but I'm pretty sure it'd take a change in code from the developers. It's...

September 2019 RHaworth talk contribs deleted page Simba Mangaba (R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace) 09:10, 7 September 2019 Path slopu talk contribs...

are no longer allowed to create new articles, so that's where the Draft namespace (and en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation) comes in. There are...

we should stick with IPA, and we should also have a page in Wikipedia namespace, which describes the pronounciation of each of IPA symbols, in simple...

version, since that stops the warning if the user talk page is a cross-namespace redirect. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:55, 16 October 2021 (UTC) You really...

12:58, 15 December 2012 (UTC) Tracked in Phabricator Task T45159 Template namespace on NewPages. It happened a few days ago, and I believe it's to do with...

work as expected because this is a Wikipedia project, and the Project namespace takes priority. I have changed this to a wiktionary link for clarity....

Speaking of maintenance, the configuration file will be in the MediaWiki namespace, therefore, only admins can maintain it... Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 07:38...

(UTC) If were not allowed to create userboxes and such out of our own namespace, what is this? Also, are image boxes supposed to have a period (.) at...

They seem to be working or not as a unit. They won't work on any namespace's talk page. Also, where they do work, they do so on an apparently random...

29 February 2012 (UTC) I remember that something clever was done with namespaces to do a simple under a language, it may have been something like fr.wikipedia...

disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing...

2019 (UTC) "Wikipedia:" is what is called a namespace; there are other pages in the Wikipedia namespace (for examplle Wikipedia:Simple talk, or :Wikipedia:Requests...

October 2021 Fastily talk contribs deleted page Ali Tajdary (R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace)--21:05, 22 October 2021 Qwerfjkl talk contribs...

your edit count, I'm impressed of how much you edit in the Wikipedia namespace. But you do have a rather low count in the mainspace. Try boosting that...

User namespace. --rimshottalk 12:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Delete. I agree with Rimshot, if the user wants, s/he can recreate it in his or her namespace. ·...

Hydriz[Discussions needed] 10:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC) Keep, but move to Wikipedia namespace. Chenzw  Talk  11:21, 9 October 2010 (UTC) Delete I can't even see a use...

aware of this, I found it on accident. It seems that MediaWiki has all namespaces indexed by default. Which means that currently all the user space on here...

how to move pages by yourself. Please read WP:MOVE before moving. Cross-namespace moves will require additional discussion. MathXplore (talk) 09:22, 18...

on the wiki in a given namespace. the list defaults to the article namespace, but it can be changed to look at any namespace. Looking at the page, all...

the reasons why there is a proposal of banning you from the Wikipedia namespace. Shapiros10 14:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC) Ok, its transcluded, you can...

as a subpage of Wikipedia:Books or move it there if it was created in your user namespace. focus on a certain topic meaningful title reasonable size...

Collaboration... incidentally, how many users does it need to become WP namespace? Anyway, you may want to salt the page if you are going to delete, as...

this? - Most of your edits are still devoted to Userspace (or Wikipedia namespace), little is devoted to editing articles. A community is nice to have,...

does some great work with articles, and is a big help in the project namespace but I don't think he's ready. Also per most of the above. Synergy 18:59...

vandal/blanking warnings, etc.) when performing undos. Link to User talk namespace edits here, where post-undo messages are mostly those labelled with (TW)...

can flag yourself ;) ). Looking specifically at contribs to Wikipedia namespace, you've taken part in a good number of discussions. From what I've seen...

{{Goodimage}} on Image:Wiki.png. I'm marking everything in the Image namespace that should stay here, on simple, with the template. Thanks! Maxim(talk)...

in the main article namespace? I agree with Fr33kman, every one of those articles should make their way into the article namespace on simple. And Djsasso...

and only 31/476 edits are to community discussions (ie: the Wikipedia namespace). fr33kman talk 03:45, 4 August 2009 (UTC) Comments View this user's edit...

only 17 edits. 3 User talk edits, 13 mainspace edits and one Wikipedia namespace edit. --Barras (talk) 12:23, 7 April 2009 (UTC) Support as all the opposes...

(UTC) First of all we don't have Wikiprojects here, so it is in the wrong namespace, and secondly it is full of red-links. So: delete--Eptalon (talk) 09:28...

such as merging. Delete - we can't just redirect every misspelling of namespaces. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 10:14, 21 March 2024 (UTC) This request...

July 2025 (UTC) Noted. Will I be allowed to transfer the article to my namespace? I am hoping for that. Buszmail (talk) 01:15, 4 July 2025 (UTC) I personally...

12 October 2008 (UTC) Reviews Most of your edits are to user or talk namespace. This isn't myspace. Your constant changing of names and retiring (5 times...

will be preventing unregistered users from creating pages in an entire namespace. Since no one else seems to have any objections, however, I can get started...

for about 3 months time To have at least 1.000 edits, in SimpleWP, main namespace. Additionally, you will need to convince the community to support you...

Userfy I agree that we don't need this sort of thing in the template namespace, but I'm not so morally objected to its existence that I care one way...

edits in the mainspace. Mainspace is much more important than any other namespace. Just make sure you remember that quality edits matter, not quantity....

reverting vandalism etc. I don't see too much activity in the Wikipedia namespace (where all discussions take place) either. You are doing a good job, but...

October 2008 (UTC) Oppose - There are almost zero edits to the Wikipedia namespace (apart from voting in RfAs), showing a possible lack of understanding...

there are any problems) He is definitely not allowed to touch: Wikipedia namespace (this includes nominations/Votes for GAs, VGAs and demotions, and Simple...

nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Useless page in Wikipedia namespace. It also said it was a policy but it's not, so I removed that claim. Depextual...

of sense. I believe the software can be changed to make the template namespace automatically semi-protected. Majorly talk 12:46, 22 July 2008 (UTC) It...

the times after which we desysop and write a guideline page in the WP namespace for future reference. fr33kman talk 21:54, 12 August 2009 (UTC) On reflection...

beginning) here at Simple Wikipedia (after all it is in the Wikipedia: namespace). As for links, I have always been for as much interconnection between...

few more points/questions: Userboxes may not be created in the Template namespace. Please keep userboxes in your userspace. What "technical userpage thing"...

only thing that remains is his importing a template into the template namespace, which does not violate the rules he has agreed to, and which can be fixed...

@Rus793 points out, there are somewhere between 50 and 60 pages in article namespace linked to it. We can decide later if it needs renaming to Sponsorship...

Cassandra 02:35, 10 July 2008 (UTC) Both of those are caused by MediaWiki: namespace messages, though I forget which ones. If anyone's interested I'll go searching...

any templates that are linked to an article need to be in the template namespace? Thanks - Da LambTalk to me!Please don't eat da 🐑! 17:13, 2 August 2022...

Yellowshoes13 (talk) 03:22, 24 January 2020 (UTC) We don't have a draft namespace here, you'd have to draft it in your userspace (i.e. User:Yellowshoes13/Ryan...

way to change the text on pages in the Special: namespace. I looked through the MediaWiki: namespace and nothing came up there. Orashmatash (talk) 16:42...

WP:Simple talk. Please do a search for "Postemobile S.p.A." in the user talk namespace to see all the affected IPs and investigate whether this could be a case...

be created outside of the template or module namespaces by either first creating them in template namespace and moving them, or (for admins and template...

August 2008 (UTC) Hmm... userbox templates should not be in template namespace (yet..). Does anyone want it in their userspace? If not, I will move it...

list of reasons (see picture of screen), which are different for each namespace. When you choose a reason and then click the "Submit query" button, the...

like another project's article if they have better format. I don't see a namespace soft redirect to another project (Commons in this case) being an appropriate...

example: Project:ArticleGuidance/Musician). Create a page in the Wikipedia namespace using a name that matches the outline (for example, for the Musician outline...

(UTC) Result: Quick deleted as non-notable user-written essay in the main namespace - Huji reply 20:04, 28 February 2008 (UTC) Comment: It's not deleted....

discussions about deletion or moving complex chemistry articles fron namespace back into userspace. He has tended to look for ways to skirt any restrictions...

Apart from the input form, 'Hide redirects', 'Strip prefix in list' and namespace selection are the only options I can see. Could you tell the steps to...

on whether it's kept, but there are lots of old pages in the Wikipedia namespace. An admin can remove this one from New changes by editing Wikipedia:RecentChanges...

warnings to vandals (and not all of the reverts take place in the main namespace). I have no idea why the holiday cards are a huge deal, they are all fixed...

needed steps to deal with the situation? They need to be in the Wikipedia namespace but a simple move failed (didnt look, probable exists already) Something...

become even more neglected. Furthermore, we do not yet have a Portal namespace here, nor do we allow Portals - as a result I have tagged it for deletion...

Wikipedia's policies apply to all pages, regardless if they are in the article namespace or not.--TBCΦtalk? 20:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC) Just to clarify my statement...

calling it page_title that was throwing me off cause I was thinking of the namespace being part of the title. -DJSasso (talk) 17:04, 24 June 2019 (UTC) @Djsasso:...

outside of my userpage. I understand why bots that edit the "public" namespace for say need to be approved. However, I do not understand what harm an...

this Wiki (and to merge its content into EnWP, perhaps with a separate namespace). The problem I see there: We have 30-odd regular editors, EnWP has thousands...

happens. IMO, sysops should start with updating gadgets in MediaWiki namespace first and then move on to highly used scripts in user space. It is kind...

a self-nomination Oppose I don't see a lot of contributions to the WP namespace recently. Also, you've only been active for two weeks at present. Shapiros10...

are not getting it, the articles just won't get moved to the article namespace. Can you think of other ways that would make it easier for the community...

is that sandboxes are bad, with the exception of templates, MediaWiki namespace and prehaps hi-viz pages such as Main Page. Microchip • talk 09:29, 6...

of. Actually, I have one question. Is it just me or you can't select namespaces in user contributions anymore? Either way, if anyone has any questions...

summary :|. The following is from his last 1,000 contributions in all namespaces & works in back-chronological order (now → then). Along with the ones...

article to their userpage, as the Simple English Wikipedia lacks a draft namespace. "Professional impact" is vague and does not mean anything if we can't...

pages outside of articles. The primary purpose of the Wikipedia project namespace and similar pages are to coordinate the mission of the building of the...

task would remove broken links to portals by editing in the template namespace. For example, Portal:Asia had a bunch of links, see https://simple.wikipedia...

many have highlighted in this discussion, TDKR's activity in the Project namespace is a bit too low for my liking. While it is true that you can understand...

will spend more than a half of my time and contributions in the Article namespace. But a wiki also relies on organisation and maintenance. I believe that...

about an article on it's talk page. You only have 2 edits in the talk namespace, try discussing an article there. It could really help you if you discuss...

(UTC) Support While TDKR has a relatively low edit count in the Wikipedia namespace and is not very involved in admin tasks, the main question at an RfA is...

quite some time now. Orashmatash has done many edits to the different namespaces, helped with improving articles, joined discussions on ANI and ST. As...

15 minutes before posting this self-nomination. About half are article namespace (not the worst I've seen), but where you've usually edited about 125-175...

December 2024 (UTC)  Comment: On Simple English Wikipedia there is no Draft: namespace, but it could be moved to someone's userspace, such as yours. Depextual...

one owns any article. Essentially all of your edits to the wikipedia namespaces (wiki and wiki talk) are solely to nominate yourself for admin. You do...

November 2006 (UTC) Note that this user has only 11 edits and 0 on the main namespace.-- Tdxiang Adminship 03:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC) Neutral. Active and...

I get the objection to the lack of substantial edits to the article namespace, but I don't think that would stop them being a good admin. I see good...

diff-font-size:8 irc:true irc-port:6667 irc-channel:#simple.wikipedia minor:reverts namespaces:all new-pages:false preload:2 show-log:true show-new-edits:true show-queue:true...

August 30 2008 (UTC) Reviews With 75% of your edits in the user/user talk namespaces, there is little to critique aside from saying the Wikipedia is not MySpace...

in the Wikipedia namespace (such as in RFDs). When I checked, TDKR's edits in the last year included only 21 edits in that namespace, and only 218 in...

and more. The "total pages" column refers to the number of pages in all namespaces, including both articles (the official article count of each wiki) and...

can move these lists there, because they do not belong in the Wikipedia namespace. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:03, 10 November 2013 (UTC) That is what I was referring...

controversies, such as the Seigenthaler biography incident. About moving to WP namespace: this was an incident that occurred on EN, and did not involve anyone...

the commander= 10:49, 3 November 2008 (UTC) Considering the number of namespaces, the percentage I have in mainspace is actually quite high. Majorly talk...

all enwiki things can help us. If you want to add things to our project namespace, it must be helpful to the project. MathXplore (talk) 11:01, 9 August...

(UTC) Users User preferences Once a week 03:59, 24 March 2019 (UTC) Other statistics Page count by namespace No longer running 05:00, 24 March 2019 (UTC)...

Collaboration... incidentally, how many users does it need to become WP namespace? Anyway, you may want to salt the page if you are going to delete, as...

processes (just do a quick run-through of the contributions to the Project namespace and you will get what I mean). Administrators are not just empowered to...

for deletion/Requests/2010/Musiquip Requests for deletion/Requests/2010/Namespaces of MediaWiki Requests for deletion/Requests/2010/National Sheriffs Patriot...

are not deleted, they should at least be userfied and any return to the namespace should be fairly cautious (not just one person ticking a box). For one...

here would keep such thngs in their userspace and not in the wikipedia namespace. Some essays are soft redirected to enwiki if they are considered useful...

generally think, that this is a good example, why we should've a DRAFT-namespace here too. We can't keep record of userspace drafts. There are more such...

22:12, 30 May 2009 (UTC) Delete Seems to be more suitable in the project namespace. Article is not encyclopedic (nor simple) enough and suggests a COI (seeing...

early last year, I think Computer Fizz's participation in the Project namespace is a bit too low for my liking. For most of 2018 and the first half of...

here and here! BTW: Anyway I recommend to move the article in the user's namespace as he wanted to work on it until the lemma got notability. Edit: In view...

and blocked. Almost every test edit was an error. Changing the names of namespaces from the correct version to an incorrect or the default name. Will unblock...

status as a sysop exempted him from rules on Freenode and the Wikipedia namespace there. I respond because this implication is an accusation towards me...

permanent job? (let's say MiszaBot does the Wikipedia namespace while your bot does the user talk namespace) Chenzw  Talk  13:55, 19 February 2009 (UTC) I suppose...

"External Links" with "Other Websites" in the main (article) namespace? Pages in other namespaces probably contain discussion of this topic, and mentions of...

DELETION. User pages are administration pages in the User and User talk namespaces, and are useful for organizing and aiding the work users do on Wikipedia...

few I looked at didn't. If it can't I would suggest turning off that namespace. -DJSasso (talk) 18:37, 21 September 2011 (UTC) Do you mean soemthing...

get more support this time round. I've helped out more in the Wikipedia namespace, and for those of you that care about edit count, I have made 2272 edits...

allows Sassobot. Possess the capability to archive project/Wikipedia namespace pages as requested by the community. Consensus dictates the content of...

edits in total; of the 790 last month, about 17% were in User/User talk namespaces. This is not something to worry about. I am aware, that Huji only started...

Netoholic restored "Wikipedia:MediaWiki_namespace" 21:35, 3 Dec 2004 Netoholic deleted "Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace (restore)" (merging page histories)...

signature. Wolf has three edits, all of which are to User and User Talk namespace. Schlechter Wolf doppelganger (talk) 14:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)  Done --vector...

June 2023 Whpq talk contribs deleted page Car accident lawyer (R2: Cross-namespace redirect from mainspace) 10:14, 23 June 2023 Xx236 talk contribs moved...

Okay, as you recommends. Will it be a problem if it works on category namespace too? — Tanvir • 17:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC) Nope. Just as long as its...

November 2009 (UTC) I think it should be restored as it was in the username namespace, not an actual template. --Bsadowski1 01:42, 15 November 2009 (UTC) Username...

{{User:StevenJ81/Korentemplate}} transclusion or move it to the template namespace if you think it's going to be used on lots of pages. Osiris (talk) 18:53...

English Wikipedia. So I want to deprecate the File namespace. That is, we want to declare the namespace to be obsolete in this language. Sbb1413 (he) (talk...

other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces". But since our project doesn't have Portal namespace, I think...

(talk) 22:18, 28 July 2011 (UTC) Looks better than the one in the main namespace, imo. Left a small note on the talk page. Therefore marking as  Done -Barras...

you to write some more pages and/or do some more edits in the article namespace. --weltforce 18:33, 21 August 2012 (UTC)  Not done - Sorry, but as the...

November 2021 (UTC) I created an appropriate page and redirected it. Cross-namespace redirects are to be avoided as much as possible, especially in cases where...

no "</source>". <br /> <br /> False positive: some old RfA page in WP namespace. END ###########################################################################...

formatting since the visual editor is not something that works in that namespace. But do you like what I did? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk | contribs) 04:36...

see this or this). Likewise, your substantive contributions to the main namespace are very low, as most of your contributions there are vandalism reverts...

editor on simplewiki almost every day, especially on RC and in the main namespace (but also in wiki spaces). Sometimes there is a lack of immediately active...

Message_box 42531 19 Message_box/configuration 42520 20 Namespace_detect/config 38945 21 Namespace_detect/data 38945 22 Side_box 31782 23 Separated_entries...

to make at this time. The bot ignores pages in the module and template namespaces, as most of these pages usually need protection. That being said, the...

mainspace, be aware that if you move it yourself it will leave behind a cross-namespace redirect. To avoid having that, please either ask an admin to move it...

talk namespaces are set to not be included in search engine results. Can we get consensus to do that here? The instructions for de-indexing a namespace are...

8465 can be replaced with: if (mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') === 10) { // If in Template namespace: pageobj.setPageText("<noinclude>" + "\{\{RfD|"...

an extreme measure […] Additionally, the spam blacklist applies to all namespaces. I can see some uses of having these links in discussion pages. Also,...

these? Original version: if (mw.config.get('wgNamespaceNumber') === 10) { // If in Template namespace: pageobj.setPageText("<noinclude>" + "\{\{RfD|"...

links to user pages, talk pages and templates as well as the article namespace. Because of this there may be entries still on the list that are linked...

This page is utilized as a sub-template which is called and is common to the usage sections of the merge templates it lists. It does nothing more than...

This page is utilized as a sub-template which is called and is common to the usage sections of the merge templates it lists. It does nothing more than...

23:29, 19 January 2025 (UTC) Filter 48 should be limited to the article namespace, be renamed to New editor blanking articles, and should be set to disallow...

org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=T363538&namespace=126 and https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=Broken%2F&namespace=0 ) Please review these pages...

you to write some more pages and/or do some more edits in the article namespace. --weltforce 18:33, 21 August 2012 (UTC)  Not done - Sorry, but as the...

waiting to be able to use blocking someone from editing certain page or namespace ;P fr33kman 21:24, 18 September 2023 (UTC) Be aware multiple accounts...

stay away from reader-facing pages such as the article namespace, DYK, and the template namespace. If you want to make a joke, you can do it on your user...

that we can block a user from contributing to various namespace and/or an article or other namespaces should a indefinitely partial block of mainspace equal...

15 November 2023 (UTC) @Fehufanga I'd appreciate you moving it into namespace but idk if that might be against rules or something you are personally...

Namespace Status Indexed Can be overridden (main) newer than 90 days, unpatrolled No No newer than 90 days, patrolled Yes Yes older than 90 days Yes No...

should be changed, because they are deprecated/obsolete: article_namespace to page_namespace article_prefixedtext to page_prefixedtitle article_recent_contributors...

00:01, 29 May 2025 (UTC) I think you should add WT: as a namespace alias to Wikipedia talk: namespace. It would be helpful by making it easier to type in the...

anti-vandalism work. I’ve already made close to 600 total edits in all namespaces (including deleted edits to pages that I flagged for deletion) because...

Also, because of the title, it will be limited to articles using page_namespace == 0. I merged the current two regex lines into one, and used (?s) in...

-DJSasso (talk) 16:58, 28 September 2010 (UTC) It's because the link is "&namespace=0". It only shows article edits (Alpha Quadrant has no article edits)...

Special:UnconnectedPages, you can select a namespace. There are currently 20 unconnected pages in the article namespace. Kk.urban (talk) 01:22, 22 April 2024...

)\bwikipedia\.org\b"; reference := "<\s*ref[^\/]*>[^<]*wikipedia\.org"; page_namespace == 0 & !("autoconfirmed" in user_rights) & added_lines rlike wikipedia...

fr33kman 17:56, 7 August 2023 (UTC) What if we exclude article namespace, help namespace, and their talk pages? 88.110.38.249 (talk) 18:20, 7 August 2023...

Quora, or StackExchange. Additionally, the spam blacklist applies to all namespaces. I can see some uses of having these links in discussion pages. — *Fehufangą...

below the image, and it appears that it was supposed to be in the article namespace. However, an admin could also delete it if it qualifies for quick deletion...

2025 (UTC) Just ask here what you want reviewed. We don't have a draft namespace or special review process. -Barras talk 18:32, 25 August 2025 (UTC) Alright...

(UTC) My actual question is, why is there humour within the Wikipedia: namespace. 88.110.38.249 (talk) 09:35, 24 August 2023 (UTC) What sort of answer...

Could an administrator please review and consider moving it to the main namespace? Thank you! JohnSkirbe (talk) 17:43, 27 May 2025 (UTC) Not an admin -...

org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=119.155.179.249%2F16&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=&end=&limit=50 This large /16 range has been making...

(talk) 12:49, 24 June 2023 (UTC) They have remade the page in the template namespace. Template:Telenyanya.ru Bobherry Talk My Changes 20:19, 26 June 2023 (UTC)...

Joseph4real1995 (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · SUL · CA · checkuser (log)) Monday4real1995 (talk+ ·...

March 2024 (UTC) Change being made: Tried to remove the "Non-article namespaces" section because it is unrelated to the page. Description: It got flagged...

definitely harm us - Wikipedia is not intended to test edits in the main namespace. That's why we have WP:Sandbox. Test edits only waste editors' time inserting...

of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace, Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects, Archive Wikinews...

be looked at. The only constant is that they are put into the template namespace, but that is jumping the gun. As to who can make one - There are no limits...

While trying to move User:Naleksuh/Ram Ranch to mainspace, I forgot that namespaces are controlled by a menu and not the type box, and accidentally moved...