Funtoo:Wikiverse/Project Pages

'Project pages' are sets of pages on the Funtoo wiki under the Project Namespace which are used to organize Funtoo development efforts.

This page is here to get you acquainted with this system and how it works.

Introduction -- Project Namespace

In MediaWiki terminology, a "namespace" is a special section of the wiki that is distinct (see this MediaWiki Namespace documentation for more information.) The "main" part of the wiki is in the Main namespace and you can find these pages at the following URLs:

https://www.funtoo.org/A Regular Page

There is also a User namespace, which holds pages that can be used by individual users. This is your user page, which may not exist yet. When creating new content on the wiki, it's expected that you will use a subpage of your user page as its initial home.

MediaWiki also has a special namespace called the Project namespace. This namespace was added to MediaWiki to provide "meta-discussions related to the operation and development of the wiki". For Funtoo, we use this namespace not just for wiki development but also for content related to Funtoo Linux projects.

Project namespace URLs are special, because you can get to them two ways:

https://www.funtoo.org/Project:Wikiverse
https://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo:Wikiverse

The URLs above are equivalent. This is because the Project namespace has a special property where it has two names -- one is the literal Project which is hard-coded into all MediaWiki implementations. The other URL varies from wiki to wiki, and is determined based on the wiki name -- specifically the $wgSitename configuration parameter. Since the Funtoo wiki has $wgSiteName set to "Funtoo", this is also an alternate name for the Project namespace on the Funtoo wiki. In fact, if you go to the first URL displayed above, the wiki will redirect you to the one with the Funtoo: prefix since they are considered equivalent.