Details

$wgContentNamespaces exists to allow custom namespaces to be acknowledged as containing useful content for the purpose of the following features:

Extension:Popups , Special:Random , Special:Statistics , Special:AncientPages , Special:DeadendPages , Special:FewestRevisions , Special:LonelyPages , Special:MostCategories , Special:MostInterwikis , Special:RandomPage , Special:ShortPages , Special:LongPages , Special:UncategorizedPages , Special:WithoutInterwiki , {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} , Notifications ^[1]

Useful if additional namespaces also contain "content" which should be considered when choosing a random page or generating a count of the number of articles in the wiki. It also serves as the default for $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl , which means that __NOINDEX__ and __NOFOLLOW__ magic words won't work in these namespaces.

The main namespace is considered a content namespace, as are other namespaces in this array, referenced by index.

Example:

$wgContentNamespaces
 =
 [
 0
,
 12
,
 112
 ];

or

$wgContentNamespaces
 =
 [
 NS_MAIN
,
 NS_HELP
,
 NS_PROJECT
,
 NS_CUSTOMNAMESPACE
 ];

This does not control which namespaces the full-text search engine defaults to searching; that must be configured separately using $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault .

The set of content namespaces for a wiki can be retrieved via the siteinfo API endpoint, e.g. action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces , and filter for namespaces with "content" : true .

See also

• Manual:Using custom namespaces#Content namespaces
• Manual:$wgArticleCountMethod ? Sets the method to determine which page is counted as a valid content page.
• Manual:$wgMetaNamespace ? Set the name of the 'Meta'/'Project' namespace.
• Manual:Article count
• Manual:Namespace
• Manual:Configuration settings#Namespaces