Bahaipedia:Namespace

On Bahaipedia certain pages will be prefixed by a word followed by a colon (:), as an example this page is Bahaipedia:Namespace. The word before the colon (Bahaipedia) is the namespace. A namespace is a way to separate content which is meant to be encyclopedic and appears in the main namespace (titles will not have a prefix or colon in them) from other types of content. This

The following namespaces are in use:

• Bahaipedia: Content specific to the website as a project, describing how it is organized or used, what editorial policies it follows.
• Category: Lists of pages organized by a common topic or theme.
• File: Media content like images, music files, PDFs, etc.
• Help: Content meant to guide people in using Bahaipedia, interacting with the website, learning to edit, etc.
• Main: Encyclopedic content. No prefix is used in this namespace.
• MediaWiki: Content necessary for the proper display of content by MediaWiki software; editing permission is generally available only to administrators.
• Module: Lua scripts used to display content.
• Portal: Organized lists of content, meant to be another way for users to find and navigate through content on the website.
• Template: Content which can be duplicated onto other pages, with optional input parameters.
• User: Pages that identify individual Bahaipedia users.

Each of these namespaces has an associated talk namespace which contains talk pages for the discussion of pages.

The following sections give further details about certain namespaces.

Bahaipedia

The Bahaipedia namespace (also called "the Project namespace") provides information about Bahaipedia.

Pages in this namespace will always have the prefix Bahaipedia:. They can also be reached by alias B: or the standard (for any MediaWiki site) prefix Project:.

The Bahaipedia namespace contains important information about the rules, policies and guidelines on the site.

• Category:Bahaipedia official policy contains important rules that are widely accepted, and procedures for important processes such as deletion; there are very few of those

• Category:Bahaipedia guidelines contains consensual rules-of-thumb that are not strict, but are considered by most Bahaipedians to be useful most of the time

Category

See also: Help:Category

Template

See also: Help:Template

Templates often look like text boxes with a different background color from that of normal text. They are in the template namespace, i.e. they are defined in pages with "Template:" in front of the name.

For example, consider the template Template:Citation needed (follow the link to see the page where it can be edited). To insert the template's content into an article, type {{Citation needed}} in the wiki page ( {{Citation needed}} is called a template tag ). Every article with that tag in it will display the following text:

This technique is commonly known as transclusion. For a table of some useful templates, see Bahaipedia:Template messages.

With the template namespace it is possible to include the contents of a page in that namespace within a page in a different namespace, using double curly braces around the template title (for example, {{title}} would import Template:Title). This is used for many things, such as placing recurring or boilerplate messages, creating navigational boxes, and so on.

See also

• Help:Namespace at mediawiki.org