Manual:Interface/Edit notice

MediaWiki contains various features to display a custom notice above the edit form, depending on the page, namespace, or other circumstances. Below are the most important ones.


 * Editnotice :
 * This is a per-namespace and per-page notice.
 * The page " MediaWiki:Editnotice-N " is loaded for an entire namespace, where " N " is the namespace number. For example " MediaWiki:Editnotice-3 " is loaded for user talk pages.
 * Each distinct page can have a specific notice via " MediaWiki:Editnotice-N-Title ", where " N " is again the namespace number. Note that slashes (/) are replaced by hyphens (-).  For example, " MediaWiki:Editnotice-2-Foo-bar " corresponds to both " User:Foo-bar " and " User:Foo/bar ".
 * If for that namespace, the edit notice will also show on the subpages of the page.


 * Talkpagetext:
 * The message " MediaWiki:Talkpagetext " is loaded on any talk page as well. This corresponds to all " MediaWiki:Editnotice-X " messages together, where X is an odd number.  This message can be customized per user language.
 * It can contain for example recommendations regarding etiquette (or a link to a page where it is addressed) and a reminder for the users to always sign their posts with four tildes.


 * Editinginterface:
 * The message " MediaWiki:Editinginterface " is displayed while editing MediaWiki messages, above " MediaWiki:Editnotice-8 " ( 8 is the namespace number of the MediaWiki namespace). This message, however, contains text by default and is translated into the user language.


 * Creating new pages :
 * While creating a non-existing page, the user interface message " MediaWiki:Newarticletext " is displayed.