Extension:GlobalNotice

GlobalNotice is a MediaWiki extension that allows to create global, undismissable sitenotices on a wiki farm (such as ShoutWiki).

Dependency

 * MessageCommons &mdash; 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  into the wiki's LocalSettings.php
 * 3) Installation can now be verified through the wiki's Special:Version

Usage

 * MediaWiki:Forced-globalnotice &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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 &mdash; 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 &mdash; see above, but for bureaucrats
 * MediaWiki:Globalnotice-bot &mdash; see above...
 * MediaWiki:Globalnotice-rollback &mdash; once again, see above