Extension:GlobalNotice

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GlobalNotice Release status: stable
Implementation	Notify
Description	Global sitenotice(s) for wiki farms
Author(s)	Misza Jack Phoenix
Last version	0.3
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download snapshot (Git master) Git [?]: repo summary tree code changes
Example	ShoutWiki
Hooks used SiteNoticeAfter EditPage::showEditForm:initial
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GlobalNotice is a MediaWiki extension that allows to create global sitenotices, which cannot be dismissed, on a wiki farm (such as ShoutWiki).

Dependency

• MessageCommons — required to make the notices global

Installation

1. Download the source code into a file called GlobalNotice.php and place it in $IP/extensions/GlobalNotice/
2. Add the line
   require_once("$IP/extensions/GlobalNotice/GlobalNotice.php");
   into the wiki's LocalSettings.php
3. Installation can now be verified through the wiki's Special:Version

Usage

• MediaWiki:Forced-globalnotice — a site-wide notice shown for *all* users, no matter what their language is. Used only for things like server migration notices etc.
• MediaWiki:Globalnotice — global notice, depending on the user's language. This can be used to show language-specific stuff to users with a certain interface language (i.e. "We need more French translators! Pouvez-vous nous aider ?" on MediaWiki:Globalnotice/fr to show the message to all users with French as their interface language)
• MediaWiki:Globalnotice-sysop — a site-wide notice shown to all administrators (depending on language; MediaWiki:Globalnotice-sysop/fr to show a notice to all French sysops etc.)
  • MediaWiki:Globalnotice-bureaucrat — see above, but for bureaucrats
  • MediaWiki:Globalnotice-bot — see above...
  • MediaWiki:Globalnotice-rollback — once again, see above