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What are namespaces?

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What are namespaces?

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Namespaces are used to distinguish between different types of content. Information about users goes in the “user namespace”. This means the page title starts with “User:”. For example, User:Jasonr is a page about Jason in the User namespace. See Help:Namespace.

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Namespaces are large “storages” that group pages according to their function. Placing a page in a namespace causes the MediaWiki software to treat it in a special way. For example, this page is in the Wookieepedia namespace, according to its prefix (Wookieepedia:FAQ). Every namespace except Special (whose pages are generated by scripts on the fly, rather than being stored in the database) has an appropriate talk namespace, unless it is itself a talk namespace. For example, the talk page for the article named Star Wars (located in the default namespace, without any prefix) resides at Talk:Star Wars.