Help:Namespaces

About namespaces
Pages on a MediaWiki wiki are grouped into collections called "namespaces" (sometimes abbreviated to "ns"), which differentiate between the purpose of the pages at a high level. Pages in certain namespaces can also have special properties or behave differently when they interact with other pages. The namespace makes up the first part of the page name, and is separated from the rest of the name by a colon. For example, this page ("Help:Namespaces") is in the "Help" namespace, used for pages to explain how Wikisource works.

Every namespace has an attendant "talk" namespace, where discussion about the content on that page can be held.

Every namespace also has a number which is how it is represented in the database holding Wikisource's content. A current list can be found |namespaces|namespacealiases|statistics here.