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@@ -48,10 +48,7 @@ in HTML, you may need to add further processing to the last line.
 
 Note that by default, `Special:Allpages` will only list pages in the main
 namespace. You need to add a `&namespace=XX` argument to get pages in a
 
 Note that by default, `Special:Allpages` will only list pages in the main
 namespace. You need to add a `&namespace=XX` argument to get pages in a

-different namespace. The following numbers correspond to common namespaces:
-
- * 10 - templates (`Template:foo`)
- * 14 - categories (`Category:bar`)
+different namespace. (See below for the default list of namespaces)

 
 Note that the page names obtained this way will not include any namespace
 specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off.
 
 Note that the page names obtained this way will not include any namespace
 specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off.


@@ -62,11 +59,26 @@ If you have access to the relational database in which your mediawiki data is
 stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this. With mediawiki's
 MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`:
 
 stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this. With mediawiki's
 MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`:
 

- SELECT page_namespace, page_title FROM page;
+    SELECT page_namespace, page_title FROM page;

 
 As with the previous method, you will need to do some filtering based on the
 namespace.
 
 
 As with the previous method, you will need to do some filtering based on the
 namespace.
 

+### namespaces
+
+The list of default namespaces in mediawiki is available from <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces>. Here are reproduced the ones you are most likely to encounter if you are running a small mediawiki install for your own purposes:
+
+[[!table data="""
+Index   | Name         | Example
+0       | Main         | Foo
+1       | Talk         | Talk:Foo
+2       | User         | User:Jon
+3       | User talk    | User_talk:Jon
+6       | File         | File:Barack_Obama_signature.svg
+10      | Template     | Template:Prettytable
+14      | Category     | Category:Pages_needing_review
+"""]]
+

 ## Step 2: fetching the page data
 
 Once you have a list of page names, you can fetch the data for each page.
 ## Step 2: fetching the page data
 
 Once you have a list of page names, you can fetch the data for each page.