Admin Forum:New namespaces

Are there any problems associated with adding some new namespaces such as these to an existing wiki:


 * 1) I'm think of adding a Portal namespace to contain intro pages to the various topic areas of the wiki.
 * 2) I currently have a bunch of tables located in the template space that are content, but few users edit and were separated out of the articles they are now tranclude into to remove the easily broken table code form the article page & to allow them to be protected without locking the whole article. As they are actually content rather than code the 'missing ones clutter up the wanted templates list.


 * 1) Pages for individual vehicles that are named via their registration number. As these numbers have saveral formats and can cause confusion with some short words and model numbers would there be any down side (or upside) to placing them in a separate namespace ? (oboisly they wold then need to be pre-fixed with say "Reg-no:" in every link within the article to them.

Comments please on the pros and/or cons of the ideas.

- 01:50, February 28, 2012 (UTC)


 * The first one is very common. In fact, I have no idea why the portal namespace is not active on wikis to begin with. The other two Im not sure about. While it would be easy to throw them in another namespace. It may not be best. You could probably make do with just prefixed pages.--
 * If you want to create a namespace, then you can request for one using Special:Contact/general &mdash; [/wiki/User:Sam_Wang S a m ] [/wiki/Message_Wall:Sam_Wang W a n g ] 02:31, February 28, 2012 (UTC)