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mainspace

mainspace noun: the primary namespace of a wiki, excluding secondary content such as discussion pages.

Noun

mainspace (countable and uncountable, plural mainspaces)

  1. (Internet) The primary namespace of a wiki, excluding secondary content such as discussion pages.
    • In the tutorial […] you see how to move your article from your personal space (the draft) to mainspace, where actual articles reside.2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 64
    • This groups together a majority of the site's content. There is no namespace prefix for the mainspace.2010, Jeff Orlof, Mizanur Rahman, MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide

Verb

mainspace (third-person singular simple present mainspaces, present participle mainspacing, simple past and past participle mainspaced)

  1. (Internet) To move a page on a wiki into the mainspace.

Forms of mainspace

Noun
pluralmainspaces
Verb
third-person singular presentmainspaces
present participlemainspacing
past participlemainspaced
pastmainspaced

Origin of mainspace

Blend of main + namespace.

Questions about mainspace

What does mainspace mean?
Mainspace means the primary namespace of a wiki, excluding secondary content such as discussion pages.
What part of speech is mainspace?
Mainspace can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of mainspace?
The plural of mainspace is mainspaces.

Words near mainspace in the dictionary

  1. mainsheet
  2. mainsheets
  3. mainshock
  4. mainshocks
  5. mainsleaze
  6. mainspace
  7. mainspaced
  8. mainspaces
  9. mainspacing
  10. mainspan
  11. mainspans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mainspace (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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