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authorhttp://jmtd.livejournal.com/ <http://jmtd.livejournal.com/@web>2010-04-26 15:19:04 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joey@finch.kitenet.net>2010-04-26 15:19:04 +0000
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@@ -48,10 +48,7 @@ in HTML, you may need to add further processing to the last line.
Note that by default, `Special:Allpages` will only list pages in the main
namespace. You need to add a `&namespace=XX` argument to get pages in a
-different namespace. The following numbers correspond to common namespaces:
-
- * 10 - templates (`Template:foo`)
- * 14 - categories (`Category:bar`)
+different namespace. (See below for the default list of namespaces)
Note that the page names obtained this way will not include any namespace
specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off.
@@ -67,6 +64,12 @@ MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`:
As with the previous method, you will need to do some filtering based on the
namespace.
+### namespaces
+
+The list of default namespaces in mediawiki is available from <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces>, reproduced here for convenience:
+
+[[mediawiki_namespaces]]
+
## Step 2: fetching the page data
Once you have a list of page names, you can fetch the data for each page.