Adding Namespaces

• Go into the wmf-deployment directory:

 cd /home/wikipedia/common/wmf-deployment/

• Edit InitialiseSettings.php

 vim wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php

• Inside the file, find the section variable called wgExtraNamespaces.

• Scroll down in the file and find the existing section for the project you are adding namespaces to
• If it doesn't list in that section, create a new entry for it

• Update the file to list off the namespaces you are adding & save your changes

• Try to keep the namespace numbers in some sort of order (IE: Portal is often 100.)

• Once you have exited the now updated file, you need to push it live to the cluster:

 sync-file wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php <one line summary of change and reason>

• Now you MUST run the following script to clean up any pages that are using the new namespace in the title before it existed:

 php maintenance/namespaceDupes.php --wiki=<wikidbname> --fix

• This will fix all the broken names due to the new namespace.