Endmyopia:Namespaces

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. (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.)

Every namespace has an equivalent '... Talk:' namespace along with it. These talkspaces are used for discussion of whatever the namespace is. This is the same for all namespaces. A lot of the descriptions of the namespaces below were ripped straight from Wikipedia.

Namespaces that are relevant to most people

Mainspace/articles

This is where the majority of normal articles go. This namespace doesn't have a prefix usually.

Endmyopia

This namespace is where all of the policies, and sitewide meta-essays live. Policy editing is encouraged by everyone.

Help

This namespace is for technical aspects of how to edit the wiki. That means no policies, just purely technical information on editing.

Guide

This namespace will exist in the future - it will hold 'tutorial' information on how to do things with vision improvement.

Essay

This namespace will exist in the future - it will host essays written by members of the community. All essays will clearly be marked with a message at the top of the essay indicating it is the work of one person, and not a consensus among many people.

Draft

This namespace is for articles that will be moved into mainspace in the future. The wiki's general policy is to discourage draft articles as much as possible, and to make sure everything is in mainspace so that everyone can develop articles together, and whatever is already written may be of use to readers for the time being.

See Endmyopia:Drafts are for chumps

User

User pages are administration pages in the User and User talk namespaces that are useful for organizing and aiding the work users do on EndMyopia Wiki, as well as facilitating interaction and sharing between users. User pages are mainly for interpersonal discussion, notices, testing and drafts (see: Sandboxes), and, if desired, limited autobiographical and personal content.

How boring! You can also put loads of fun stuff here, such as Endmyopia:Infoboxes so editors know more about your personal dealings with myopia and such.

File

This namespace is where files belong.

Template

This namespace holds templates. Templates are referenced with {{templatenamehere}}

Category

This namespace collects categories of articles together.

Namespaces that are relevant to less people

MediaWiki

This namespace holds configuration settings for MediaWiki, the software that the wiki runs on.

Module

This namespace holds configuration options for modules that will run on the wiki.

TimedText

This is an extension namespace that may be implemented for video files to be played in the future.