Board Thread:Overhaul and Deletion/@comment-758892-20130416082037/@comment-758892-20130419081414

Thunder Luigi wrote: Unless others have done so, themselves, I have created a new article since the incarnation of the new FanFic namespace to see how it would affect the Wiki Activity page and stuff. Activity regarding it doesn't appear, and its page doesn't seem to add to the total displayed on the main page. Is this behavior normal?

Also, how would categories be added to these pages?

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As far as I know, this is normal behavior. Custom namespaces are excluded from the Wiki Activity log like other special namespaces (Help:, etc). I don't know, if you can have them included by a Wikia sysop (or if that's even advisable).

But you can always see the changes on the Special:RecentChanges page. You have only to select the additional namespaces you want to be displayed. I think you can even preselect all namespaces on your account's preferences page ("Show all namespaces" or something like that).

As for the categories, I don't think that will work. Categories: is itself a namespace of the main wiki. For categories to work in the custom namespaces, one would need a kind of "sub-namespace" FanFic:Categories:, a feature, that does not exist as yet for wikia sites, I think.