Wiktionary:Namespace

This page lists namespaces of the English Wiktionary and how they are used.

Overview
A variety of namespaces are currently set in the English Wiktionary, which is powered by the MediaWiki software. Each namespace may hold an indefinite number of pages and serves a different purpose in organizing them.

Each namespace is identified by its own name or by a number, except one which does not have a particular name, being defined as "main" or "entry" in some places. Except for "main", the namespace of a page is always present in the beginning of its title, followed by a colon. Therefore, if a page called Appendix:Example exists, it is in the Appendix namespace and may be linked as Appendix:Example.

Subpages
If the title of a page contains a slash, it is considered a subpage of another page whose title is equal, but without, the slash and subsequent characters. For instance, Beer parlour/timeline is a subpage of Beer parlour. A subpage is expected to be subordinate of the other page.

The only exception are pages in the main namespace, as they are naturally considered independent. For example, "AC/DC" is not the subpage of page "AC" but rather an individual page. Note that "Talk:AC/DC" unexpectedly does not fit in this exception.

List of namespaces
The namespaces "main", User, Wiktionary, File, MediaWiki, Template, Help and Category represent basic functions inherent to most MediaWiki sites, so similar namespaces are likely to be found in Wiktionary's sister projects such as Wikipedia.

The namespaces Appendix, Concordance, Index, Rhymes, Transwiki, Wikisaurus (now called Thesaurus) and Citations were introduced on 28 June 2006. Most of them have purposes more directly related to building a dictionary, so they probably would not be found in other projects, but Wiktionaries in other languages may have similar namespaces. Particularly, the Transwiki system also became common in other types of project.

Each of the namespaces explained above is counterpart to one of the talk namespaces: Talk, User talk, Wiktionary talk, File talk, MediaWiki talk, Template talk, Help talk, Category talk, Appendix talk, Concordance talk, Index talk, Rhymes talk, Transwiki talk, Thesaurus talk and Citations talk. They serve as spaces for conversations about the current non-talk page. For instance, users may talk about Wiktionary:Namespace at Wiktionary talk:Namespace. However, there are a few generic discussion rooms which may be preferred in place of discussing on separate talk pages.

Here is a table with all current namespaces of the English Wiktionary and their descriptions. The items in the "Name" column are linked to a list of all pages in the respective namespace.

Former namespaces
The gaps in namespace numbering correspond to namespaces that were removed from Wiktionary. These are:
 * Concordance: (102) and Concordance talk: (103)
 * This namespace held listings of words from particular references, for example, the Bible. This was intended as a way to find and fill gaps in our coverage, but it never really took off.
 * Some concordances still exist in the Appendix (see Category:Concordances) and some users' subpages.
 * Removal discussed at RFDO, see Wiktionary talk:Concordances
 * Index: (104) and Index talk: (105)
 * This namespace was intended to hold bot-generated alphabetical indexes of the entries in every language, but the indexes were rarely consulted or updated in practice.
 * Largely superseded by lemma categories.
 * Removal voted on: Votes/2021-07/Deleting the Index
 * WT: (112) and WT talk: (113)
 * Replaced by aliasing the "WT:" prefix to the Wiktionary: namespace

Aliases
There are several namespace aliases. They are case-insensitive.

Pseudo-namespaces
Pseudo namespaces are sets of pages that use the colon to set them off from other pages but without the full namespace support of MediaWiki software. All of the current pseudo namespaces are not in the main namespace so they are effectively sub-namespaces. Current pseudo namespaces include: thesaurus topic categories
 * Category: (e.g. Category:es:Foods) – topic categories
 * Category:Thesaurus (e.g. Category:Thesaurus:Power, Category:Thesaurus:en:Power) –
 * Template:list (e.g. Template:list:countries of Africa) – list templates for use in "see also" sections
 * Template:R (e.g. Template:R:DWDS, Template:R:gsw:SI) – reference templates, see Category:Reference templates by language)
 * Template:RQ (e.g. Template:RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth) – templates for quoting prominent works of literature etc., see Category:Quotation templates by language)
 * Template:U: (e.g. Template:U:en:equal) – usage note templates

Interwiki links
Any wiki link prefaced by one of the keywords below link to external Wikimedia sites, as indicated. Each external site has its own set of namespaces which can also be included in the link. In addition, wikis in different languages exist. See below for further details.

From other Wikimedia sites link to Wiktionary by using the wikt: or wiktionary: prefix.

* Other Wikimedia prefixes:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,.

''The long form doesn't work within the same project. The shortcut works everywhere. (That is the intention; currently, it does not work on all projects'').

To get to another language, you might use nl:Overleg:Hoofdpagina]]. Note: this requires a preceding colon to display as a normal link, otherwise it will appear in the left-most column under “Other languages.”