Manual:$wgContentNamespaces

Namespaces: $wgContentNamespaces
Namespaces which are considered to contain real content, or articles
Introduced in version:	1.7.0 (r14738)
Removed in version:	Still in use
Allowed values:	(Array of namespace indexes)
Default value:	[ NS_MAIN ]
Other settings: Alphabetical | By function

Details

$wgContentNamespaces exists to allow custom namespaces to be acknowledged as containing useful content for the purpose of the following features:

Extension:Popups, Special:Random, Special:Statistics, Special:AncientPages, Special:DeadendPages, Special:FewestRevisions, Special:LonelyPages, Special:MostCategories, Special:MostInterwikis, Special:RandomPage, Special:ShortPages, Special:LongPages, Special:UncategorizedPages, Special:WithoutInterwiki, {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}, Notifications

Useful if additional namespaces also contain "content" which should be considered when choosing a random page or generating a count of the number of articles in the wiki. It also serves as the default for $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl , which means that __NOINDEX__ and __NOFOLLOW__ magic words won't work in these namespaces.

The main namespace is considered a content namespace, as are other namespaces in this array, referenced by index.

Example:

$wgContentNamespaces = [ 0, 12, 112 ];

or

$wgContentNamespaces = [ NS_MAIN, NS_HELP, NS_PROJECT, NS_CUSTOMNAMESPACE ];

If you change this variable, you'll have to run updateArticleCount.php to update the count in Special:Statistics and {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}.

This does not control which namespaces the full-text search engine defaults to searching; that must be configured separately using $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault .

The set of content namespaces for a wiki can be retrieved via the siteinfo API endpoint, e.g. action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces, and filter for namespaces with "content": true.

See also

• Manual:Using custom namespaces#Content namespaces
• Manual:$wgArticleCountMethod – Sets the method to determine which page is counted as a valid content page.
• Manual:$wgMetaNamespace – Set the name of the 'Meta'/'Project' namespace.
• Manual:Article count
• Manual:Namespace
• Manual:Configuration settings#Namespaces