namespace Detect/Doc

This module allows you to output different text depending on the namespace that a given page is in. It is a Lua implementation of the {{namespace detect}} template, with a few improvements: all namespaces and all namespace aliases are supported, and namespace names are detected automatically for the local wiki.

{{#invoke: Namespace detect | main | page              =  | main              =  | talk              =    | portal            =  | category          =  | user             =  | wikipedia         =  | education program =  | mediawiki         =  | book              =  | timedtext         =  | template          =  | special           =  | media             =  | file              =  | image             =  | help             =  | module            =   | other             =  | demospace         =   | subjectns         =  }} 

• main - text to return if the page is in the main namespace.
• talk - text to return if the page is in a talk namespace. This can be any talk namespace - it will match any of "Talk:", "Wikipedia talk:", "User talk:", etc.
• Subject namespace parameters, e.g. wikipedia, user, file... - the text to return if the page is in the corresponding namespace. This module accepts all subject namespaces as parameters, including namespace aliases and virtual namespaces. See below for a list of supported values.
• other - text to return if no parameters for the page's namespace were specified. This text is also returned if |demospace= is set to an invalid namespace value.
• subjectns - if on a talk page, use the corresponding subject page. Can be set with values of "yes", "y", "true" or "1".
• demopage - specifies a page to detect the namespace of. If not specified, and if the |demospace= parameter is not set, then the module uses the current page.
• demospace - force the module to behave as if the page was in the specified namespace. Often used for demonstrations.

Namespace parameters

Possible values for subject namespace parameters are as follows:

Use the following to display a table with the different possible namespace parameters:

{{#invoke:Namespace detect|table|talk=yes}} 

To include the parameter for talk namespaces, use |talk=yes.

This module is designed to be portable. To use it on a different wiki, all you need to do is to change the values in Module:Namespace detect/config. Instructions are available on that page.

The module uses a data page at Module:Namespace detect/data. This page is loaded with mw.loadData, which means it is processed once per page rather than once per #invoke. This was done for performance reasons.