Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace

The MediaWiki namespace allows to customise or translate the MediaWiki web interface. For details see MediaWiki namespace.

Because the changes to these pages have a global effect, only administrators have the ability to edit them. Non-admins who would like to suggest a change can do so at the Village pump, this page's MediaWiki namespace, or the talk page of the associated MediaWiki: message.'''

List of system messages

All of the special system messages are viewable from Allmessages. Each listing provides a link to the message and its talk page. The listing also displays the default and current versions of the interface messages.

Caution: Some messages must have HTML links, and others must have wikilinks. To find out which is which, you must know where the message is used in the interface.

History

Until June 2004, the MediaWiki namespace was also used for creating other boilerplate text messages, to be used in articles. This function was replaced with the Template namespace as a function of the "Template namespace initialisation script", a bot ran by developer Tim Starling. All non-system messages were moved to new namespace, and many redirects still exist. The initialisation script also replaced MediaWiki: references in articles with Template: in order to bypass the redirects. In October to November 2005, the excess redirects were deleted.

For a short time, before the renaming from votes for deletion to articles for deletion, Articles for deletion used MediaWiki: messages named in the format "MediaWiki:VfD-articlename". These were moved to the Template: space in June 2004 and are now (as of January 2006) subpages of Articles for deletion or wikipedia:Votes for deletion.

Wikipedia features

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List of system messages

History