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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 in different projects (see below)
	same usage in all projects
	virtual namespace

Main, project and help

Purpose of namespaces in different Wikimedia projects
	Main namespace	Project namespace	Help namespace
Wikipedia	encyclopedia articles	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: information relevant to multiple Wikimedia projects	pages related to Meta-Wiki itself, not to other Wikimedia projects	documentation of 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 existing wikis (formatting, etc.), aiming for a complete English version that can be shipped with the MW distribution (unlike elsewhere, contributions in this namespace are 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.

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 == Main, project and help ==
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+|+ Purpose of namespaces in different Wikimedia projects
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 | '''Wikipedia'''
-| encyclopedic articles
+| encyclopedia articles
-| provides information about Wikipedia, its policies, guidelines, rules, etc. along with some help about MediaWiki that is particular to Wikipedia
+| 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
+| copied from Meta-Wiki's help namespace
 |-
 | '''Meta-Wiki'''
+| meta-pages: information relevant to multiple Wikimedia projects
-| style="text-align:center;" | Meta-pages
-| style="text-align:center;" | Pages related to Meta-Wiki, not to other Wikimedia projects
+| pages related to Meta-Wiki itself, not to other Wikimedia projects
-| document the basic, technical features of MediaWiki
+| documentation of the basic, technical features of MediaWiki
 |-
 | '''MediaWiki.org'''
-| All general information about the software.
+| all general information about the software
-| Organisation of MediaWiki.org, this namespace should be as small as possible.
+| organisation of MediaWiki.org (this namespace should be as small as possible)
-| style="background:#A6A6ED;" | 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'''.
+| style="background:#bbf;" | set of basic help pages for users of existing wikis (formatting, etc.), aiming for a complete English version that can be shipped with the MW distribution (unlike elsewhere, contributions in this namespace are licensed in the '''public domain''')
 |}

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Main, project and help

Additional namespaces

See also