Re: [website-dev] Wiki confused?

On 03/30/10 11:59 AM, Nino Novak wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 10:25, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> page 6663 (:General) doesn't match self.
>> DRY RUN: would rename 6663 (100,'General') to (100,'General')
>> page 6664 (:General) doesn't match self.
>> DRY RUN: would rename 6664 (101,'General') to (101,'General')
> 
> could you provide the textual names of custom namespaces 100 and 101?
> 
> I do not see them with the siteinfo/namespaces query. So they might be 
> not existing. 

Good question.

Namespaces in the 100+ range are usually reserved for custom namespaces 
that are defined in a MediaWiki based Wiki.  In the OOoWiki we're not 
using anything beyond the default 18 Namespaces that are provided by the 
default install of MediaWiki.... so you're right, the namespaces at 100 
and 101 don't actually exist.

The default 18 namespaces are documented here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace

Just guessing here... the broken pages that show up in the 100 and 101 
namespaces are all pages that start with a colon (even numbers are 
content pages, and odd are talk pages).  It's likely the script thinks 
that the pages belong to the undefined namespace because of that leading 
colon.

It's possible that when I run the maintenance script the pages will end 
up attached to the 100 and 101 namespace and not be immediately 
accessible... but they aren't accessible now as it is, so this isn't a 
loss.  If this happens I could try enabling a temp namespace at 100 and 
101 to see if we would be able to view the lost/broken pages that got 
mistakenly attached to a new undefined namespace.

C.
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Clayton Cornell       [email protected]
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead