Manual:$wgContentNamespaces

$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 ^[1]

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 ];

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. use action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces and filter for namespaces with the "content" attribute.

• 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

• MediaWiki configuration settings
• MediaWiki configuration settings introduced in version 1.7.0
• MediaWiki configuration settings still in use
• Namespace variables