You're probably best of creating a separate install for each department. Namespaces aren't really meant to work like folders, and you'll end up with collisions when you go to use categories.
Also, I would recommend using a more recent version of MediaWiki. On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Josh Enders <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello mediawiki-l, > > We've been using MediaWiki 1.15 in our organization for a few months > without categories or custom namespaces. We've finally accumulated > enough articles for patterns to appear and we've decided to begin > organization. I've created some custom namespaces for several > departments but I'm confused on the usage of categories. > > My question is, how do you avoid category namespace collisions from > multiple custom namespaces? When I use the [[:Category:foo]] syntax, > the category is created in the Category namespace that is shared among > all namespaces. When I use the [[:namespace:foo]] syntax only a normal > page is created. This presents a problem when two custom namespaces > want to use the same Category title. > > Is there a way to accomplish this or will I need to create a separate > installation for each department? > > -- > Josh Enders > Systems Administrator, Technical Operations > > www.zoosk.com > www.facebook.com/zoosk > www.twitter.com/zoosk > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- John _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
