A Ryzom Wiki article is a page that has encyclopedic information on it. See Special:Allpages for a list of all English Ryzom Wiki articles and Statistics for statistics on English Wiki and its growth (more on Wiki Technical Guide#Special Pages). "Articles" belong to the main namespace of Ryzom Wiki pages (also called "article namespace") which does not include any pages in any of the specified namespaces that are used for particular purposes, such as:

• the Ryzom Wiki namespace for material about meta subjects related to Ryzom Wiki);
• the talk namespaces for discussing what the content of pages should be
• the special namespace, whose pages are created by the software on demand
• the user namespace for pages that are used by individual Ryzom Wiki writers
• the MediaWiki namespace which is used to define shortcuts and other text strings used around Ryzom Wiki

But not all pages in the article namespace are considered to be articles; the most notable exceptions are:

• the Main Page;
• disambiguation pages, which are used to resolve naming conflicts;
• redirect pages, which are used to re-route one page to another page;
• for wiki-statistical purposes, some extremely short and simple pages are not counted as articles. The criteria have varied over time.

The automatic definition used by the software at Special:Statistics is: any page that is in the article namespace, is not a redirect page and contains at least one wiki link. The statistics software currently has no method of detecting disambiguation pages, however; nor does it disregards (but in any case, many articles tagged as stubs are quite substantial) or stublists (lists templates with little or no content).

Quality of articles

Articles range greatly in quality, from as high as featured articles to as low as candidates for speedy deletion. Some articles are quite lengthy and rich in content while others are shorter (possibly) and of lesser quality.

See also

• Help:Editing