7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

then on, this information is stored in the source text. It is replaced
even if the user is not logged in; in such cases, the user name is replaced
by his or her current IP address.
6.2
Organizing Content
The methods previously described create structures by linking to entries
without providing any specific information about why there is a
connection between them. MediaWiki also offers the possibility of
grouping several pages according to function or content-related aspects.
Namespaces and categories serve this purpose.
Namespaces allow a wiki to be divided into various areas. Pages
having the same name can be established in different areas, so that,
in principle, several groups of users can work on a wiki without worrying
about whether a page name they have selected has already
been taken by someone else. Thus, for example, the information
booth and petition groups can each have a separate page in their own
namespace with the same significant name ToDo.
However, in MediaWiki, the names of these areas are “hard coded.”
That means that they have been fixed in the source code of MediaWiki
and may not be altered by users. Instead, they serve as a
Function of
namespaces
Fig. 6.1
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Namespaces in
MediaWiki