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Nil Eyeglazed

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Confused about namespaces
« on: March 06, 2012, 10:35:05 pm »

Hey, hoping for a little help.

So I'm confused about what I'm supposed to enter as the name of an article when I create a new one (for instance, to update an old page).  Recently, I made a memory (computing) page because "computation" had a red link and I always thought there ought to be something on the wiki there.  Should I have made it "DF2012:Memory (computing)"?

What happens if I follow a red link and create a page?  Will it put it in the DF2012 namespace automatically, or is there something I need to do?

Just not sure how it all works, trying to do things right and reduce clean-up work.
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Re: Confused about namespaces
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2012, 11:46:52 pm »

Links within any of the "DF version" namespaces (DF2012, v0.31, 40d, or 23a) will automatically point at the same namespace.
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Re: Confused about namespaces
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2012, 11:59:47 pm »

Thanks.

If I happen to make a brand new page, say by search and then "create this page", will it end up in the 2012 namespace?
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Re: Confused about namespaces
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2012, 08:53:07 am »

Brand new pages will end up in the global namespace, which is probably not where they belong (unless they apply to all past and and future versions, which isn't likely).
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Re: Confused about namespaces
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2012, 05:54:56 pm »

Cool, thanks.  I think I got the hang of it.
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