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The project namespace or Wikipedia namespace is a namespace consisting of administration pages with information or discussion about Wikipedia. Pages in this namespace will always have the prefix Wikipedia:. They can also be reached by alias WP: or the standard (for any MediaWiki site) prefix Project:. Its namespace number is four (4).
All pages in the User namespace, for example, are user pages, whereas Drafts are in the Draft namespace. This page is in the Wikipedia namespace, for information or discussions about the project itself and its policies. Wikipedia has 28 current namespaces: 13 subject namespaces, 13 corresponding talk namespaces, and 2 virtual namespaces.
The Wikipedia:Project namespace includes Wikipedia official policies and guidelines, process pages, discussion pages, optional essays, informative pages, humorous and historical pages. Policies and guidelines
The pages in this category are redirects from pages outside the Wikipedia project namespace to pages inside the Wikipedia project namespace. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R to project namespace}}}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]]. For more information follow the links.
For example, the article Project: Mersh is named Project Mersh, as Project: is a namespace alias for the Wikipedia: namespace. A pagename cannot consist of only a namespace prefix. A pagename cannot begin or end with a space (which would be translated to an underscore in the URL).
After a successful project proposal, it's time to set up a new project! First, a project will need a base page. WikiProjects are generally in project namespace so you'll create your WikiProject home page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Your new project. The contents of the home page may vary but tend to include the project's scope, goals, participants ...
The pages in this category are redirects from pages in the Wikipedia project namespace to other pages in the Wikipedia project namespace. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R to project namespace}}}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]]. For more information follow the links.
To a project page: This is a redirect from any page inside or outside of project (Wikipedia: or WP:) space to any page in the project namespace. The above category link leads to a list of redirects from inside project space. Redirects from outside project space are automatically sorted to Category:Redirects to project namespace.