Masticationpedia:Namespaces

Pages on a MediaWiki wiki are grouped into collections called “namespaces” which differentiate between the purpose of the pages at a high level. Pages in certain namespaces can also have special properties or behave differently when they interact with other pages.

Namespaces are indicated in page titles by prefixing the page name with <namespace>:, so the prefix Masticationpedia: in this page's title (Masticationpedia:Namespaces) indicates that this page is in the Masticationpedia namespace. Each namespace is identified by a number and a name, which can be translated and can also have some aliases.

Masticationpedia namespaces

Namespace	Code	Subpages	Usergroups	Aliases	Content
Main	0	True	sysop	""	This namespace has no prefix separated by a colon. Commonly called the “main namespace” or “mainspace”. This namespace contains the bulk of the content pages in this wiki. This namespace has no special properties.
Talk	1	True	editor		The “Talk” namespace is the discussion namespace attached to the mainspace. It has no special properties
User	2	True	user		Each user has a corresponding page in the “User” namespace, which is linked to from edit histories, watchlists, recent changes, etc; wherever an individual user is uniquely identified. This page, and subpages of it, can be used by users to record information about themselves or to test and draft new content. Pages of the form User:UserName/Foo.js or User:UserName/Foo.css can only be edited by the user themselves or by interface administrators
User talk	3	True	user		This namespace is the talkspace associated with the “User” namespace. Pages in this namespace are mainly used to leave messages for particular users or inform them of discussions that may be of interest to them. To facilitate this, when a page User talk:UserName is edited, whenever the user UserName loads a page, a notice is displayed at the top of the page informing them of the edit This notice continues to appear until the user loads their user talk page to read the message.
Masticationpedia	4	True	sysop	MP, Project	This namespace is used for meta-discussions related to the operation and development of the wiki
Masticationpedia talk	5	True	user	Project talk	This talk namespace is used for discussions related to the associated project pages. It has no special properties
File	6	False		Immagine	The “File” namespace is used to store metadata for images, videos, sound files and other media accessed via the “Media” namespace. Each file has a corresponding page in the “File” 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: [[File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|right]] produces the image to the right. See Help:Images for more details of this link syntax. To create an internal link to the file page, you need to add a colon to the front of the namespace: [[:File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg|right]] produces File:MediaWiki-2020-logo.svg. The standard MediaWiki installation has alias “Image” for “File” namespace – See Namespace aliases. For linking media files directly, bypassing the description page, see [[<tvar|ns-media>#ns-media</>|Media namespace]].
File talk	7	True		Immagine talk
MediaWiki	8	True
MediaWiki talk	9	True
Template	10	True	sysop
Template talk	11	True	user
Help	12	True	sysop
Help talk	13	True	user
Category	14	False
Category talk	15	True
Resources	90	True	sysop	Risorse
Resources talk	91	True	editor	Risorse talk
Draft	94	True	sysop	Bozze
Draft talk	95	True	editor	Bozze talk
Form	106	False	sysop
Form talk	107	False
TimedText	710	False	sysop
TimedText talk	711	False
Module	828	True	sysop
Module talk	829	True
Translations	1198	True	translator
Translations talk	1199	True	user
Gadget	2300	False
Gadget talk	2301	False
Gadget definition	2302	False
Gadget definition talk	2303	False
Topic	2600	False
News	3000	True	sysop
News talk	3001	True	user
Author	4010	True	sysop	Autore
Author talk	4011	True		Autore talk
Updates	4810	True	sysop
Updates talk	4811	True