Difference between revisions of Endmyopia:Namespaces
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{{EM technical}} | {{EM technical}}{{nutshell|Namespaces categorise pages on the wiki.|The ones that are considered 'content' are '''Mainspace, Guide: Explainer: Writing: Review: and Improvement:'''|There are a lot of namespaces, for organisation. Not all of the namespaces will be used equally.}} | ||
{{nutshell|Namespaces categorise pages on the wiki.|The ones that are considered 'content' are '''Mainspace, Guide: Explainer: Writing: Review: and Improvement:'''|There are a lot of namespaces, for organisation. Not all of the namespaces will be used | |||
A namespace is a set of pages whose names begin with a particular reserved word recognized by the MediaWiki software (followed by a colon). For example, in the user namespace all titles begin with the prefix User:. In the case of the article (or main) namespace, in which articles appear, the reserved word and colon are absent. {{small|(Note: main space articles can optionally include a colon at the beginning with no reserved word, so [[Article]] and [[:Article]] are equivalent. This is usually only necessary for the advanced technique of transcluding a main space article into another page.)}} | A namespace is a set of pages whose names begin with a particular reserved word recognized by the MediaWiki software (followed by a colon). For example, in the user namespace all titles begin with the prefix User:. In the case of the article (or main) namespace, in which articles appear, the reserved word and colon are absent. {{small|(Note: main space articles can optionally include a colon at the beginning with no reserved word, so [[Article]] and [[:Article]] are equivalent. This is usually only necessary for the advanced technique of transcluding a main space article into another page.)}} | ||
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===YouTuber=== | ===YouTuber=== | ||
Nothing like a bit of self-promotion for whoever wants to do that. This namespace is for people with EM related content on a YouTube channel (or equivalent) to make a cool little promotional page. | Nothing like a bit of self-promotion for whoever wants to do that. This namespace is for people with EM related content on a YouTube channel (or equivalent) to make a cool little promotional page. | ||
See [[List:YouTubers]] for where this should mainly be used. | |||
===List=== | ===List=== | ||
The List namespace is for list-based articles. | The List namespace is for list-based articles. | ||
===Quiz=== | |||
The quiz namespace is used for quizzes. See [[Help:Advanced formatting#Quiz]] for more information on how to build these (pretty easy) | |||
===Joke=== | ===Joke=== | ||
[[File:Lemon by cactus cowboy.svg|60px]] | |||
ze jokey namespce is 4 complet non senses!! '''ZOMG NO RULES!!1''' [[:Category:Joke articles]] | |||
===Legal=== | ===Legal=== | ||
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This is an extension namespace that may be implemented for video files to be played in the future. | This is an extension namespace that may be implemented for video files to be played in the future. | ||
===Moved=== | |||
Moved is sets up hard redirect links that can be used as internal wikilinks. They are used for appearance purposes, such as the endmyopia.org footer, or the {{diff2|13788|lead section}} of the website. It's only used for really frequently linked to stuff. | |||
{{ | [[mw:Extension:ExternalRedirect|Extension:ExternalRedirect]] is used for this purpose. | ||
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