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=== Files === | === Files === | ||
The file namespace consists mainly of images used to illustrate the wiki. | |||
=== Category === | === Category === | ||
{{See also|Help:Categories}} | |||
The category namespace contains the category pages which lists all the pages in a category, in essence all the pages with the same category tag, for example <code><nowiki>[[Category:Help]]</nowiki></code>. These are linked together in a somewhat hierarchical fashion. | |||
Links to category pages in the category namespace will when done like links to articles in the main namespace add a page to that category. To instead link to a category page you have to begin the link with a colon, like this <code><nowiki>[[:Category:Help]]</nowiki></code>. | |||
=== Template === | === Template === | ||
Templates that are used when the wiki editors either want content to be presented in a consistent manner or to lessen the amount of typing needed for common things like repository links etc. | {{See also|Help:Templates}} | ||
The template namespace contains the templates that are used when the wiki editors either want content to be presented in a consistent manner or to lessen the amount of typing needed for common things like repository links etc. | |||
When using a template you use curly braces instead of brackets, like for example <code><nowiki>{{thumbs up}}</nowiki></code>. As typically pages used as templates are in the template namespace you do not need to add the namespace when using templates. To use a page in any other namespace, like for example a draft in a page in the user namespace, you will have to add the namespace. | |||
When linking to templates you should probably use the template link template, for example like this <code><nowiki>{{tl|thumbs up}}</nowiki></code>. | |||
=== User === | === User === | ||
The user namespace contains user pages. In [[Help:Tracking changes#Recent changes|lists of changes]] the link to a user go to a page in the user namespace. | |||
Your user page is a good place to present yourself, have to-do lists, etc. You can also create subpages with drafts etc. and link to them from your user page. | |||
=== Help === | === Help === | ||
The help namspace contains the help pages describing how to use the FlightGear wiki, like the one you are reading now. | |||
=== FlightGear wiki === | |||
This namespace contains other pages related to the wiki than the pages in the help namespace, for example the [[FlightGear wiki:Manual of Style|manual of style]] and the [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump|village pump]]. | |||
=== Special === | === Special === | ||
These are pages with various tools, lists and statistics. | These are pages with various tools, lists and statistics. | ||
Some useful ones being [[Special:RecentChanges]] (which can be found in the sidebar on all pages), [[Special:CategoryTree]] and [[Special:LonelyPages]] (which lists orphaned pages without any categories or links pointing to them, thus making them hard to find). | |||
=== MediaWiki === | === MediaWiki === | ||
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== Discussion namespaces == | == Discussion namespaces == | ||
These are used for discussions about | For each namespace there is an associated discussion namespace. | ||
Pages in the other namespaces are each paired with a discussion page with a prefix ending with "_talk", for example this page's discussion page, [[Help talk:Namespaces]]. | |||
These are used for discussions about wiki pages and with users. For discussions about the wiki in general, see [[FlightGear wiki:Village pump]] | |||
[[Category:Help]] | [[Category:Help]] |