Namespace

This page summarises the current usage of the namespaces across the different Wikimedia projects. For an explanation of what the namespaces are, see Help:Namespace.

	Wikipedia	Meta-Wiki	MediaWiki.org
(main)	-	-	-
(project)	Wikipedia:	Meta:	Project:
Help	-	-	-
User	-	-	-
Category	-	-	-
File	-	-	-
MediaWiki	-	-	-
Template	-	-	-
Special	-	-	-
Media	-	-	-
Additional	Portal		Extension Manual

Color	Legend
	different usage
	same usage
	virtual namespace

Main, project and help

	Main namespace	Project namespace	Help namespace
Wikipedia	encyclopedic articles	provides information about Wikipedia, its policies, guidelines, rules, etc. along with some help about MediaWiki that is particular to Wikipedia	Copied from Meta-Wiki's help namespace
Meta-Wiki	Meta-pages	Pages related to Meta-Wiki, not to other Wikimedia projects	document the basic, technical features of MediaWiki
MediaWiki.org	All general information about the software.	Organisation of MediaWiki.org, this namespace should be as small as possible.	Set of basic help pages for users of an existing wiki (formatting etc.) The first aim is a complete English version, that can be shipped with the MW distribution. Contributions in this namespace are to be licensed in the public domain.

Additional namespaces

• MediaWiki.org has two additional namespaces:
  • Manual :All technical or more detailed stuff behind the surface, that is not part of the basic help pages (full handbook, mainly for the ones who want to set up an own wiki).
  • Extension :All extensions and directly related stuff.
• Meta-Wiki has several custom namespaces, see Meta:Namespaces.

See also

• v:Help:Namespaces
• c:Help:Namespaces
• s:mul:WS:COORD for Wikisources namespaces usage
• Special namespaces for portals and lists for an old, now widely accepted proposal