Catalog idsCopy Anchor Link

Every catalog entry has an id made of two parts, <namespace>/<slug>:

• alice/mini-pc-tray: the entry mini-pc-tray in the namespace alice
• cbnsndwch/shelf-10in: the 10″ shelf that ships with Rack Maker

Ids are lowercase. The namespace uses letters, digits and dashes; the slug may also contain dots. An id never changes once the entry exists. Each revision of the entry is the id plus a number, and projects refer to an exact revision. See Entries and revisions.

Your namespaceCopy Anchor Link

When you sign in, your handle is your namespace. It is created the first time you save a draft in it. What you make goes there, and nobody else can change it.

Handles are 2 to 32 characters of lowercase letters, digits and dashes, and can't start with a dash. A few names are reserved: core, community, system, admin-bot and cbnsndwch.

There is no shared namespace that anyone can write to. Everything in the catalog belongs to someone, and the Namespace filter on the catalog page shows whose it is.

The seed namespaceCopy Anchor Link

The entries that ship with the app (racks, shelves, trays, rails, fasteners and common devices) are in cbnsndwch. Only the site's admins and that namespace's maintainers can change them. If one of them is wrong for you, copy it into your namespace, or report the problem.

Copying an entryCopy Anchor Link

On an entry in someone else's namespace, Fork to @you (with your handle) makes a copy in yours:

• The copy gets the same slug in your namespace, starting again at rev 1. For example, bob/nas-shelf becomes alice/nas-shelf.
• It opens as a draft in the catalog editor, for you to change.
• The copy keeps all of the original's credits, and adds the entry and revision it was forked from (bob/nas-shelf@3, say). Catalog entries are CC BY-SA 4.0, so this credit has to stay. See Licences and credits.

If your namespace already has an entry with that slug, the fork doesn't go through, since the id is taken. Start a new revision of your own entry instead, or copy the definition into a New part with another slug, keeping its credits.

You can use a copy in your own projects straight away, as a draft. To put it in the catalog for everyone, submit it for review.

MaintainersCopy Anchor Link

A namespace can have maintainers besides its owner. Maintainers can draft in the namespace and, with contributor access, review and publish its revisions, just like the owner. Other members can draft in it but not publish.

Admins can draft and publish in any namespace.