"Mike O" <mikeo(a)operamail.com> wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
> > ...look at this snippet of XML from
enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2
> > taken from late August. I don't see any
namespace in the <title>
elements,
...
<title>AaA</title>
...
<title>AlgeriA</title>
Those are main namespace (namespace 0) articles, so they don't
have a prefix. But all the non-main-namespace pages do.
The first is <id>724</id><title>Wikipedia:Adding Wikipedia
articles to Nupedia</title>.)
Thanks! That explains a lot.
As a separate, but related question, why is the namespace not given as part
of the page information?
e.g.
<title>Help:Contents</title>
<namespace>12</namespace>
<pagetitle>Contents</pagetitle>
Surely this would be more useful when it comes to wider application?
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)