Namespace 118 is used as the draft namespace on several Wikimedia wikis. On the wikis below it is defined only with its localized name, with no English Draft canonical name or alias. As a result, Draft: / Draft talk: titles do not resolve there, unlike on enwiki and most other wikis with a draft namespace, which affects cross-wiki links, user scripts and tools relying on the English name. An example is EditCheck/TextMatch: missing the namespace alias forces communities to manually translate the namespace name when importing rules from other wikis.
In operations/mediawiki-config, add to each wiki's wgNamespaceAliases entry (merging with existing aliases where present):
'Draft' => 118, 'Draft_talk' => 119,
Draft namespaces without alias
- arywiki: واساخ
- hywiki: Սևագիր
- igwiki: Édēchághị́
- itwiki: Bozza
- shwiki: Nacrt
- thwiki: ฉบับร่าง
Other uses of ns 118 (not drafts, no action needed):
- Reconstruction (unattested/proto-language words): enwiktionary, zhwiktionary, hsbwiktionary (Rekonstrukcija), urwiktionary (تعمیرنو), mnwwiktionary (likely, to confirm)
- frwiktionary: Racine (word roots)
- wikimaniawiki: 2014
Pages starting with Draft: or Draft talk:
- hywiki Draft:«Freiheit» (now deleted)
- igwiki Draft:Ada Omo Daddy
- igwiki Draft:Enweghị ike ịnụ ihe
- igwiki Draft:In line (Film 2017)
- shwiki Draft:IT akademija (now deleted)
All are drafts and most are redirects. We should rename and move to the correct namespace (118). Redirects can be probably just deleted.
Related tasks
- ary T291737 Request adding and updating namespaces on arywiki
- hy T259987 Two new namespaces for hy.wikipedia.org
- ig T406178 Add draft namespace to Igbo Wikipedia
- it T280289 Create Draft namespace on itwiki
- sh T327864 Enable Draft namespace on Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia
- th T216322 Create a new namespaces on thai wikimedia projects