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Don't show virtual namespaces as a selectable namespace
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Description

Motivation
Right now, on fr-wp, you can select the "Sujet" namespace, although there is no content stored there. Instead it is a virtual namespace that was created for the Flow boards on french Wikipedia ( see also T202010#4522547). Since virtual namespaces never contain content, they should not be selectable for search

Acceptance Criteria

  • The sujet namespace is not visible in fr-wp anymore, and no topic namespace on mediawiki.org

Notes

  • According to T202010#4522547, this should be doable by filtering out the NS_TOPIC namespace (=2600)
  • This can probably only be unit tested
  • Find out if virtual namespaces are known to the client-side, move to server-side injection of namespace config into client-side code.

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Change 457885 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tim Eulitz; owner: Tim Eulitz):
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Ensure only searchable namespaces are displayed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/457885

Tim_WMDE moved this task from Doing to Review on the WMDE-FUN-Sprint-2018-09-03 board.
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Change 457885 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedSearch@master] Ensure only searchable namespaces are displayed

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/457885

Can you help me how I can test this? There is no virtual topic namespace on beta, or is there?