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::No problem, please do feel free to ask, even if the question does seem "silly"!
::No problem, please do feel free to ask, even if the question does seem "silly"!
As I understand it, articles are created with various namespace titles, but Special:Random picks from any namespace, so there is little effect. However, namespaces are still used in maintenance, statistics, and so on. My bot also uses namespaces so some extent. I don't know if Special:Random was configured intentionally to load pages from any namespace, or if there is a glitch in the system somewhere. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 16:00, 21 March 2017 (EDT)
As I understand it, articles are created with various namespace titles, but Special:Random picks from any namespace, so there is little effect. However, namespaces are still used in maintenance, statistics, and so on. My bot also uses namespaces so some extent. I don't know if Special:Random was configured intentionally to load pages from any namespace, or if there is a glitch in the system somewhere. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 16:00, 21 March 2017 (EDT)
:Investigation using [[Special:Random]] appears to suggest that no such namespace exists. [[Special:Random/User]] takes you to a random talk page, [[Special:Random/Talk]] to a random talk page but [[Specail:Random/NamespaceThatDoesntExist]] goes to a mainspace article as does [[Special:Random/Essay]] but if you've made a bot that makes use of namespaces (as most bots would probably have to) you probably know more about the subject than me. [[User:ChristopherW|ChristopherW]] ([[User talk:ChristopherW|talk]]) 12:43, 22 March 2017 (EDT)