The navigation link to the Namespace manager is located under Global actions > Management > Namespaces. This link opens the page Special:NamespaceManager.
Click the "Plus" icon at the top of the page. A dialog opens.
Enter the name for the new namespace and select the namespace options. File:NamespaceManager2.pngCreating a namespace
You can activate the following options:
Subpages: namespace can contain subpages (MediaWiki functionality)
Content namespace: needs to be checked if users will create wiki pages in this namespace (MediaWiki functionality). See also mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ContentHandler.
The corresponding talk namespace for the new namespace is automatically created. The ID of each namespace is assigned automatically based on wiki settings and existing namespace IDs.
Editing and deleting a namespace
Editing a namespace: A namespace can be edited by clicking on the "wrench" icon in the table row or above the table when a namespace is selected.
Names of talk namespaces or of system namespaces (File, MediaWiki) cannot be changed.
Deleting a namespace: Only custom (user created) namespaces can be deleted.
After clicking on the delete icon, a dialog with the delete options appears.
Deleting a namespace
Will be deleted: deletes the pages in this namespace together with the namespace
Will be moved into "(Pages)": moves the pages of this namespace into the main namespace
Will be moved into "(Pages)" with the suffix "(from [namespace name])": moves and appends the pages with "from [namespace]"
Talk namespaces are deleted with their corresponding namespace and cannot be deleted separately.
