Meta:Help:Namespace authors and history

03:38, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
05:28, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Replacement of {{new}} with {{H:new}})
03:55, 16 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
15:08, 8 November 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses - enabling the subpage feature can be done for selected namespaces.)
19:11, 6 November 2005 User:68.51.63.207 (→Sites outside Wikimedia - Comma splice)
01:52, 2 November 2005 User:Sj (Meta:Namespaces)
19:30, 31 October 2005 User:Srumberg (→Comparison of separate namespaces with separate projects)
22:26, 30 September 2005 User:64.175.224.114 (→Largely advantages of separate projects)
22:26, 30 September 2005 User:64.175.224.114 (→Largely disadvantages of separate projects)
20:45, 15 September 2005 User:Kidburla (Okay patrick, but at least remove the help: prefix)
20:41, 14 September 2005 User:Patrick m
20:39, 14 September 2005 User:Patrick (rephrase)
12:09, 14 September 2005 User:Kidburla (Added link to interwiki guide)
23:05, 25 August 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 85.138.158.83 to last version by Sasa Stefanovic)
10:51, 25 August 2005 User:85.138.158.83
10:49, 25 August 2005 User:85.138.158.83
00:05, 15 August 2005 User:Sasa Stefanovic m (looks much better with {{prettytable}})
12:42, 8 August 2005 User:70.147.26.58 (→Colon in page name)
12:40, 8 August 2005 User:70.147.26.58 (→Colon in page name)
15:12, 5 August 2005 User:216.58.84.210 (→Namespace uses)
22:44, 3 August 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by Tox to last version by Fotinakis)
14:36, 3 August 2005 User:Tox m (→Largely advantages of separate projects - Fixed awful heading)
14:35, 3 August 2005 User:Tox m (→Largely disadvantages of separate projects - Fixed awful heading)
06:33, 22 July 2005 User:Fotinakis (→Custom namespaces)
20:48, 8 July 2005 User:82.38.248.4 (→List of namespaces - minor grammatical improvement)
21:35, 5 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses -bugzilla:2686.)
21:25, 5 July 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses - *User contributions scan show all, or be restricted to a namespace of choice [not working anymore!])
16:39, 25 June 2005 User:Dlite m
11:32, 24 June 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 62.175.230.18 to last version by Patrick)
07:50, 24 June 2005 User:62.175.230.18
10:57, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses)
10:24, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick (Some projects have additional custom namespaces.)
10:08, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces)
09:21, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
09:14, 6 June 2005 User:Patrick (The maximum number of namespaces is 256 (it is a TINYINT(2) in the SQL database), so custom namespace numbers are in the range 100-255. Hence there can be 156 of them, including talk pages, i.e. 78 cu)
14:56, 3 June 2005 User:Patrick (thus, although one cannot have a single list of all pages, one can select a small namespace and use the invert option, to get almost all pages.)
10:41, 31 May 2005 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
06:44, 5 May 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses)
23:17, 4 May 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - *Template:Wikivar)
14:44, 27 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
10:29, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Automatic conversions of page names)
10:19, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→Automatic conversions of page names)
10:17, 25 April 2005 User:Patrick (An exception to the rule that the link label is the name used in the wikitext and not the converted name, applies for a redirect using a project-independent namespace name: in that case the converted)
15:06, 23 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces - The talk nam,espace of CA Ajuda does not work, see CA Ajuda:A and try the link.)
15:01, 23 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
15:01, 23 April 2005 User:Patrick ({{h:|The custom namespaces on Meta are: Hilfe Hilfe Diskussion Aide Discussion Aide Hjælp Hjælp diskussion Helpo Helpa diskuto Hjälp Hjälp diskussion Ayuda Ayuda Discusión Aiuto Discussioni aiuto ヘルプ)
00:40, 22 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Differences that can be advantages or disadvantages)
00:34, 22 April 2005 User:Patrick (Comparison of separate namespaces with separate projects)
17:12, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile
17:09, 20 April 2005 User:AnyFile
20:45, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
10:44, 19 April 2005 User:AnyFile (→See also)
22:05, 10 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
22:04, 10 April 2005 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces -bug seems fixed)
14:20, 17 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Tab labels - The first tab shows the namespace.)
10:53, 17 March 2005 User:84.148.74.210 (→Tab labels - question added..)
11:59, 9 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses - This core set is the main namespace. Other namespaces that are useful also for people who are just viewers are:)
09:21, 9 March 2005 User:Patrick m (→Namespace uses)
09:20, 9 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses - restore some details, choice between all and one, always one, or any subset)
03:18, 9 March 2005 User:Tim Starling (removed bad uses for namespaces, added some discussion about the intended use)
02:49, 9 March 2005 User:Tim Starling (rm blank section)
02:47, 9 March 2005 User:Tim Starling (explaining what a namespace is)
06:18, 28 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→See also - +ja)
23:28, 25 February 2005 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces - Help:Edit_summary#Places_where_the_edit_summary_appears)
16:28, 25 February 2005 User:YebisYa (→Automatic conversions of page names - description on project-independent namespace names is amended.)
15:50, 25 February 2005 User:YebisYa (→List of namespaces - user names in lines about edits on page histories)
15:38, 25 February 2005 User:YebisYa (sentence transposition to rectify the context)
08:56, 25 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→Namespace issues and ideas for improvements - "namespace" and "page name" in italic)
11:13, 23 February 2005 User:Patrick m (→Prefixes in various languages)
11:08, 23 February 2005 User:Patrick (This applies even for non-existing pages, so, in view of the conversion explained in the previous section, you can use a URL like http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:A.)
06:18, 23 February 2005 User:YebisYa (→Prefixes in various languages - some details added)
22:53, 19 February 2005 User:Patrick (→Tab labels -re:Talk: rm media, special)
22:32, 18 February 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses - *Help:Searching can be restricted to any subset of namespaces)
22:30, 18 February 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses - *Help:User contributions can be restricted to a namespace of choice)
22:28, 18 February 2005 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses - *Special:Allpages can be applied to a namespace of choice)
15:49, 18 February 2005 User:YebisYa (→Colon in page name - wiktionary:Special:Allpages shows ALL pages, if one is an article or not.)
08:37, 18 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→Prefixes in various languages - wikify "In Memoriam")
16:59, 17 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→List of namespaces - ))
09:35, 17 February 2005 User:YebisYa m (→Namespace issues and ideas for improvements - wikify)
07:54, 14 January 2005 User:Patrick (Special:Allpages does not show custom namespaces (this seems to be a bug), but the URLs work, e.g. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&namespace=100)
07:35, 27 December 2004 User:Patrick m
07:33, 27 December 2004 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
07:27, 27 December 2004 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces - In both cases they are in the order of ascending number, starting with 0 and without numbers 16-99.)
06:55, 27 December 2004 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces -or see the list in {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Contributions/XX}})
13:41, 24 December 2004 User:Patrick m (→List of namespaces)
12:58, 24 December 2004 User:Patrick (→Lists of pages - update: rm)
12:55, 24 December 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces -links to lists of all pages)
17:50, 15 December 2004 User:152.81.9.198 (→Namespace uses)
03:18, 25 November 2004 User:68.0.92.136 (reverted)
03:09, 25 November 2004 User:68.0.92.136 (reverted troll)
23:03, 3 November 2004 User:Patrick (mv to proper section, rm talk (please use talk page))
02:51, 2 November 2004 User:24.228.85.35 (→Add a namespace)
02:51, 2 November 2004 User:24.228.85.35 (→Add a namespace)
02:49, 2 November 2004 User:24.228.85.35 (→Add a namespace)
02:48, 2 November 2004 User:24.228.85.35 (→Add a namespace)
20:56, 19 October 2004 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 130.37.20.20 to last version by Gangleri)
19:24, 19 October 2004 User:130.37.20.20 (→Custom namespaces)
19:21, 19 October 2004 User:130.37.20.20 (→Custom namespaces)
03:07, 18 October 2004 User:Gangleri m (→Sites outside Wikimedia)
02:03, 18 October 2004 User:Gangleri (→List of namespaces - adjusted link (:Help:Talk page))
01:59, 18 October 2004 User:Gangleri m (→Namespace benefits)
10:12, 16 October 2004 User:24.80.105.124 (currly -> curly)
22:01, 15 October 2004 User:83.77.215.246 (→Namespace issues and ideas for improvements)
12:10, 10 October 2004 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 61.145.136.171 to last version by 65.96.170.89)
10:29, 10 October 2004 User:61.145.136.171
03:39, 29 September 2004 User:65.96.170.89 (→Namespace benifits)
23:16, 26 September 2004 User:80.4.5.102 (→Namespace uses - typo 'seporation')
11:32, 24 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m ({{hh}} {{handbook sidebar|editor toc}})
15:39, 23 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Namespace Issues and Improvements)
15:02, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson (How does one create a new namespace?, trying to figure out what namespaces really help with)
09:12, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→List of namespaces)
09:10, 13 September 2004 User:Patrick (One can put here material to have one-step access to it from any page in the same project, and one can put here links to have two-step access to the link targets from any page in the same project as t)
14:04, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
14:02, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→List of namespaces)
13:23, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Sites outside Wikimedia)
13:11, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
13:08, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Tab labels)
13:04, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
13:01, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Lists of pages)
12:58, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Prefixes in various languages)
12:57, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Automatic conversions of page names)
12:55, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m (→Automatic conversions of page names)
12:53, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
12:48, 11 September 2004 User:Patrick m
14:04, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses)
14:01, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Namespace uses)
13:44, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick m
13:21, 6 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m (just what are they used for?)
10:38, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Lists of pages -When disabled a form invites to submit a query, but then this leads to a HTTP 500 error.)
10:31, 6 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Lists of pages - Sysops can use "SELECT cur_title FROM cur WHERE cur_namespace=10", etc., when not disabled.)
09:28, 4 September 2004 User:Patrick (rm feature request. For a full list of all namespaces for your project, see the search options of the preferences (Special:Preferences).)
09:10, 4 September 2004 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces - The list of custom namespaces is $wgExtraNamespaces in LocalSettings.php. Custom namespaces are numbered from 100.)
03:02, 4 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m
00:53, 1 September 2004 User:Timwi m (move German link to hc template)
17:29, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Lists of pages)
17:28, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Lists of pages - See e.g. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=H)
16:57, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Lists of pages)
16:55, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Lists of pages - Oddly, for ordinary users there is no way to list all pages in the project, template and help namespaces. A workaround would be to avoid these and use the main or another namespac)
16:34, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces -For a full list for your project, see the search options of the help:preferences (Special:Preferences).)
16:13, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
16:12, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Custom namespaces)
16:08, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Custom namespaces - if a single project is multilingual (as opposed to the case of sister projects, each in one language) there may be a namespace Help: and also a namespace Hilfe:, for Help pages)
15:45, 31 August 2004 User:Patrick (A project can have additional namespaces, for example a Hilfe: namespace for Help pages in the German language.)
07:42, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick m
21:07, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
21:03, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
20:46, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
20:40, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
20:34, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
20:28, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
20:23, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
20:18, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces)
13:35, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Tab labels - "Special" - the tab is in an HTML element A without class or id, like an internal link, but it is not a link; to see the distinction, use a style for a:link and a:visited that is diff)
12:43, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Tab labels)
12:41, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Tab labels - With the class "selected" one can let the tab for the same namespace as the current page (either a self link or a link to the current revison) be displayed differently; also the tabs)
12:27, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Tab labels -The help:self link feature (a self link appearing as bold text) does not work for the tabs, no distinction is shown between a self link and a "real" link.)
12:21, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Tab labels -misc)
12:16, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Tab labels - misc)
12:02, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Tab labels - "Special" - oddly, the tab is in an HTML element A without class or id, like an internal link, and there shows up as such, even though it is not)
11:46, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Tab labels - *project: 'nstab-wp' => "About",)
11:43, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (The first tab shows the namespace. For Meta itself it is as shown on the right.)
21:25, 1 August 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces - Note that all characters of namespace prefixes are case-insensitive, so one can write e.g "mediawiki".)
21:14, 1 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
16:46, 29 July 2004 User:PhilBoswell (→List of namespaces - use an extra column to line up alternate syntax)
14:06, 29 July 2004 User:JamesDay (control wrapping with nbsp)
13:35, 29 July 2004 User:Patrick m (correction: other -> otherwise)
13:32, 29 July 2004 User:Patrick m (use |  for empty cells, other the table does not render well in some browsers)
11:27, 29 July 2004 User:PhilBoswell (→List of namespaces - converting to wikitable syntax; moving notes to new column; adding headers)
11:17, 29 July 2004 User:Patrick m
11:08, 29 July 2004 User:PhilBoswell (→List of namespaces - adding {{ns:0}})
22:52, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick (maybe there is a silly spelling rule that a period should be within quotes even if does not belong there logically, but this can not be applied in an explanation that would at least become ambiguous.)
22:32, 26 July 2004 User:12.160.33.128 (→Colon in page name)
21:36, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick m
14:24, 20 July 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Help:Talk page)
10:43, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Colon in page name)
10:40, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Automatic conversions of page names)
10:37, 14 July 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces -These pages form the MediaWiki User's Guide)
09:47, 13 July 2004 User:PhilBoswell m (→List of namespaces - NOWIKI -> PRE)
08:07, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces - such as those listed in Locales for the Wikimedia projects,)
07:59, 13 July 2004 User:Patrick (→List of namespaces -The names are set in files like LanguageDe.php, with default Language.php:)
04:59, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Automatic conversions of page names - On the left in the table above a list of project-independent namespace names is shown, the same as those on Meta and the English Wikipedia, except that "Meta")
04:43, 25 June 2004 User:Patrick (add {{ns:Talk}}, etc)
23:16, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Automatic conversions of page names)
23:15, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Automatic conversions of page names)
23:14, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Automatic conversions of page names)
23:13, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (Similarly, the other English namespace prefixes in the second column of Namespace) are automatically converted to the local ones.)
23:09, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Automatic conversions of page names)
14:38, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
06:24, 24 June 2004 User:Patrick m
07:32, 21 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Special namespace - mv most to Help:Special page)
21:11, 20 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Special namespace - adapted from Wikipedia)
15:14, 15 June 2004 User:Patrick m
15:12, 15 June 2004 User:Patrick (pseudo-namespaces)
04:12, 15 June 2004 User:Eclecticology m
20:10, 14 June 2004 User:Patrick m
20:06, 14 June 2004 User:Patrick (more lists)
19:55, 14 June 2004 User:Patrick m
19:54, 14 June 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
04:37, 6 June 2004 User:80.126.56.215 (misc)
21:40, 5 June 2004 User:Patrick (A colon in the name of a page does not imply that it is in an other than the main namespace; {{NAMESPACE}} gives the namespace, for this page "" (an empty string for the main namespace), and {{PAGENAM)
21:26, 5 June 2004 User:Patrick (misc)
21:21, 5 June 2004 User:Patrick (A prefix "Project:" is for every project automatically converted to the project namespace, e.g Project:xyz is equivalent with Meta:xyz, like a piped link. Therefore a page name starting wi)
09:15, 5 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
09:31, 4 June 2004 User:Patrick m
09:13, 4 June 2004 User:Patrick (list)
20:32, 2 June 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - Help:Template namespace)
12:15, 31 May 2004 User:Patrick (16)
21:26, 11 April 2004 User:Patrick (project prefix)
12:17, 19 March 2004 User:Patrick (There is a project prefix; for Wikimedia projects this is "Wikipedia:", "Wiktionary:", "Wikibooks:", "Wikisource:", "Wikiquote:", "Meta:", and in the case of In Memoriam also "Wikipedia:" )
16:08, 18 March 2004 User:Patrick (in Arab ":ويكيبيديا"). The last two are RTL languages which put the prefixes on the right. In URLs the prefixes are always on the left.)
16:00, 18 March 2004 User:Patrick (RTL)
15:04, 18 March 2004 User:Patrick (change of project prefix of Meta (more?))
14:57, 18 March 2004 User:Patrick (To check which prefix is used, see e.g. the link "Contact us" or "Bug reports". )
12:15, 4 March 2004 User:PhilBoswell (Fixing hebrew translation of "special")
12:09, 4 March 2004 User:PhilBoswell (Hiding wiktionary namespace to make examples more clear: too many colons)
20:32, 14 December 2003 User:Patrick ( "Speciaal" in Dutch, "Spezial" in German, "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%97%D7%93" in Hebrew. See e.g the prefix of "Recentchanges" in the URL of the link to the Recent changes.)
20:53, 13 December 2003 User:Patrick (9 -> 10)
00:21, 7 December 2003 User:Tim Starling (fix link)
07:46, 6 December 2003 User:Angela (see also Meta-Wikimedia:MediaWiki namespace)
23:24, 23 November 2003 User:Angela (9)
06:50, 20 November 2003 User:Angela m (see also Transwiki, a cross-project pseudo-namespace)
11:44, 29 September 2003 User:Patrick ("Special:" in URLs is "Speciális:" in Hungarian and "D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%97%D7%93" in Hebrew. )
10:29, 29 September 2003 User:Patrick (See also http://textbook.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Namespace)
12:39, 25 September 2003 User:Patrick m
12:32, 25 September 2003 User:Patrick (Wikipédia:)
08:29, 25 September 2003 User:Patrick (Sites using MediaWiki but outside Wikimedia usually have their own project name as project prefix, but several have simply retained "Wikipedia:".)
23:46, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick m
23:43, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick m
23:36, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick
12:02, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick (changed last edit: In URLs the prefixes are always on the left.)
11:55, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick (although in the Hebrew version the translation of "Special" is put on the left.)
11:15, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick (Hebrew seems to be the only version of Wikipedia which puts the prefixes on the right (the Arab version does not translate them and puts them on the left). )
10:22, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick
10:16, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick
10:01, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick
09:52, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick
09:44, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick ((in Russian "Википедия:"))
09:31, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick (To check which prefix is used, see e.g. the link "Bug reports". )
01:42, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick m
01:40, 24 September 2003 User:Patrick (the main namespace there are seven others, with seven prefixes. "Talk", "User", "Image" and combinations can be translated in the case of non-English wikis)
13:27, 23 September 2003 User:Patrick

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