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Change namespace settings in Thai Wikipedia
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Per a discussion at https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/วิกิพีเดีย:ศาลาชุมชน/อภิปราย/ตั้งค่าเนมสเปซเพิ่มเติม we would like to change some namespace settings:

  • make "WP" an alias of Wikipedia namespace (วิกิพีเดีย, NS:4)
  • make "Wikipedia" an alias of Wikipedia namespace as well -- For this one I know that there will be a conflict with interwiki prefix table ("Wikipedia" is set to en.wikipedia.org). However, if it is possible to override the interwiki prefix, we would appreciate it a lot.
  • make "H" an alias of help namespace

Also, currently pages with the prefix "WP:" are in main namespace. After the settings are changed, will these pages be changed to Wikipedia namespace automatically. In case they will not, how can we rename them?

Thank you


Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: enhancement

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bz68108

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:37 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz68108.

Change 147102 had a related patch set uploaded by Vogone:
Added namespace aliases for thwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/147102

(In reply to Sorawee Porncharoenwase from comment #0)

Also, currently pages with the prefix "WP:" are in main namespace. After the
settings are changed, will these pages be changed to Wikipedia namespace
automatically. In case they will not, how can we rename them?

I believe it is better to move them manually to the วิกิพีเดีย namespace before the change gets merged.

There don't seem to be any pages left in https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/WP: anymore, so I believe this can be safely merged now.

Change 147102 merged by jenkins-bot:
Added namespace aliases for thwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/147102

@Vogone: Yep, I used my bot to move those pages from "WP:" to "วิกิพีเดีย:".

I forgot to move pages with prefix "H:" to "Help:", though, and that makes "H:IL", "H:ILL", "H:IW", "H:L" remains on main namespace[1], unable to access anymore. It is completely my fault. I'm so sorry. Now I just want to know what should I do next to delete these pages from main namespace?

[1] - https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/H

I found that I can use API to delete those pages.