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This is an information page .
It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines , but rather intends to describe some aspect(s) of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect varying levels of consensus and vetting .
Wikipedia data structure Namespaces Subject namespaces Talk namespaces 0(Main/Article) Talk12User User talk34Wikipedia Wikipedia talk56File File talk78MediaWiki MediaWiki talk910Template Template talk1112Help Help talk1314Category Category talk15100Portal Portal talk101118Draft Draft talk119710TimedText TimedText talk711828Module Module talk829Deprecated 2300Gadget Gadget talk23012302Gadget definition Gadget definition talk2303Not installed 90Thread Thread talk9192Summary Summary talk93108Book Book talk109442Course Course talk443444Institution Institution talk445446Education Program Education Program talk4472600Topic 2601Virtual namespaces -1Special -2Media Current list (API call)
A Wikipedia namespace is a set of Wikipedia 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 encyclopedia 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 a page in another namespace.)
Wikipedia has 30 current namespaces: 14 subject namespaces, 14 corresponding talk namespaces, and 2 virtual namespaces. These are all listed in the box to the right. While surfing Wikipedia, a list of namespaces is available in two clicks: do an empty search, then click Advanced under the search box. The list also makes itself available where needed in the dropdown menus of, for example, Special 
The aliases WP for Wikipedia, and WT for Wikipedia talk, work for page names in the search box, and making links as well as inclusions. See Aliases below for other aliases. (The pseudo-namespaces such as H for Help, and CAT for Category, are extremely limited. See Pseudo-namespaces below.)
The table on the right shows what number to use when you want to hide pages that are on your watchlist. See: Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist for details.
Previously, the Topic namespace was available for the Flow project but it has since been turned off on this wiki.
Subject namespaces
Further information: Wikipedia:Administration § Data structure and development
This page is in the Wikipedia namespace .
Namespaces allow for the organization and separation of content pages from administration pages . Namespaces separate data into core sets, those intended for public viewing, and those intended for the editing community. Wikipedia's subject namespaces and their functions are listed below. A brief description is provided, but see the link for more information.
A namespace is sometimes called a space, for short, as in "Project space". A subject page and its talk page form a pair.
In use- Main namespace (no prefix): contains all encyclopedia articles, lists, disambiguation pages , and encyclopedia redirects . Sometimes referred to as "mainspace" or "Article".
- User namespace (prefix User:): contains user pages and other pages created by individual users for their own personal use. Pages under this namespace can still be viewed and modified by others, so do not keep any of your sensitive data here.
- Wikipedia namespace or Project namespace (prefix Wikipedia:): contains many types of pages connected with the Wikipedia project itself: information, policies, guidelines, essays, processes, discussion, etc. Namespace aliases : WP: or Project:
- File namespace (prefix File:): contains description pages for media files (images, videos, and audio files). A link starting with [[File: will display the media at that position on the page instead of showing a wikilink that leads to the specified file description page, so if you want the latter effect, use a link beginning with [[:File: (the colon trick ). Namespace alias: Image:
- MediaWiki namespace (prefix MediaWiki:): a namespace containing interface texts, such as the links and messages that appear on automatically generated pages. Pages in this namespace are permanently protected against editing by regular users. For a list of these messages, see Special:AllMessages . (The prefix cannot be shortened to "MW" because mw is an interwiki prefix. See Interwiki links below.)
- Template namespace (prefix Template:): contains templates – pages that are intended primarily to be transcluded or substituted onto other pages to insert standard text or boxes such as infoboxes and navigation boxes.
- Help namespace (prefix Help:): contains pages which provide help in using Wikipedia and its software, both for users of the encyclopedia and for editors.
- Category namespace (prefix Category:): contains category pages, which are curated lists of related pages and subcategories, along with optional additional text. A link beginning with [[Category: has the effect of adding the page the link appears on to the specified category; it will not result in a wikilink to the category page itself. If you want the latter, use the colon trick : [[:Category:.
- Portal namespace (prefix Portal:): for reader-oriented portals that help readers find articles related to a specific topic, and may contain links to encourage contributions to relevant WikiProjects . See, for example, Portal:Cricket and Portal:Spaceflight .
- Draft namespace (prefix Draft:): hosts drafts of new (potential) Wikipedia articles.
- TimedText namespace (prefix TimedText:): synchronized subtitles for media files.
- Module namespace (prefix Module:): contains Scribunto modules – Lua scripts implementing special-purpose parser functions for use in templates, beyond the basic set included with MediaWiki and its extensions .
- Gadget namespace (prefix Gadget:): installed but not currently in use.[1] Gadgets , which are small snippets enabled in user preferences , currently use the MediaWiki namespace with the MediaWiki:Gadget- page name prefix. It is a custom namespace installed by the Gadget extension .
- Gadget definition namespace (prefix Gadget definition:): installed but not currently in use; see above for more information. Gadget definitions currently use the MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition page.
On MediaWiki installations other than the English Wikipedia, additional namespaces may be installed by MediaWiki extensions ; the list of default IDs for these namespaces is at Extension default namespaces .
- Flow namespace (prefix Topic:) was a proposed talk page replacement, formerly installed on English Wikipedia by Extension:StructuredDiscussions . It is no longer installed after being rejected by the community.
- Education Program namespace (prefix Education Program:): uninstalled in 2018, and replaced with the Programs & Events Dashboard .[2] [3] However, the namespace was re-added later that year to allow access to old talk pages in the Education program talk: namespace. The namespace was then uninstalled again in 2021 after the remaining talk pages were moved to subpages of Wikipedia talk:Education program archive .
- Book namespace (prefix Book:): contained entries for Wikipedia books, collections of articles about one theme, which were used to generate downloadable files or printable documents or order books from PediaPress. In 2017, the online book rendering service was withdrawn, leading to the removal of most links leading to the namespace in 2019. The namespace and its transclusions were still retained in the hope that the WMF would come up with a solution,[4] but in 2021 the namespace was uninstalled after all remaining books were moved to subpages of Wikipedia
ooks/archive.
An alias of a namespace is its namespace. For example, WP: is Wikipedia:, and so [[Wikipedia: Page name]] can be abbreviated [[WP: Page name]]. See Aliases below, for a list of aliases, such as WT: for Wikipedia talk:. A pseudo-namespace is an agreement to create redirect pages named that way, each of which is a shortcut from mainspace to a single page in its namespace. So an alias refers to any page in its namespace, but a pseudo-namespace has far fewer pages than its real namespace. There are a few pseudo-namespace names like H: for Help:, and CAT: for Category:, and these can be discovered below in the section Pseudo-namespaces .
Talk namespaces
Main pages: Help:Using talk pages and Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines
Each of the above namespaces (but not the virtual namespaces and the former Topic: namespace) has an associated talk namespace —these are also known as discussion pages. The talk namespaces are designated by appending the word talk to the namespace name. For example, the talk namespace associated with the user namespace has the prefix User talk:. The talk namespace associated with the article namespace is Talk:.
Most of the pages in the talk namespaces are used to discuss changes to the corresponding page in the associated namespace. Pages in the user talk namespace are used to leave messages for a particular user. The user talk namespace is special in that, whenever a user's talk page is edited, that user will see an orange box saying "You have new messages" on the top of every page that they view until they visit their talk page. By default, logged-in users will see a red notification square and a small orange box on the top right hand corner of the page; IP users will only see a wide orange box spanning the top of the page. (Minor edits made by bots no longer set off the new message bar. For logged-in users, the new-message bar may be disabled in Special
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