Help:MediaWiki namespace

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Wikipedia data structure
Namespaces
Subject namespaces		Talk namespaces
0	(Main/Article)	Talk	1
2	User	User talk	3
4	Wikipedia	Wikipedia talk	5
6	File	File talk	7
8	MediaWiki	MediaWiki talk	9
10	Template	Template talk	11
12	Help	Help talk	13
14	Category	Category talk	15
100	Portal	Portal talk	101
118	Draft	Draft talk	119
710	TimedText	TimedText talk	711
828	Module	Module talk	829
Deprecated
2300	Gadget	Gadget talk	2301
2302	Gadget definition	Gadget definition talk	2303
Not installed
90	Thread	Thread talk	91
92	Summary	Summary talk	93
108	Book	Book talk	109
442	Course	Course talk	443
444	Institution	Institution talk	445
446	Education Program	Education Program talk	447
2600	Topic		2601
Virtual namespaces
-1	Special
-2	Media
Current list (API call)

The MediaWiki namespace is a namespace containing the text to be displayed in certain places in the interface. Only administrators, interface administrators and interface editors can edit pages in this namespace. In addition, pages in this namespace ending with .css or .js are furthermore restricted to interface administrators and interface editors. However, all editors can propose changes on appropriate talk pages.