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-Joe-sandbox" corresponds to both "User:Joe-sandbox" as well as "User:Joe/sandbox".
 * If for that namespace, the edit notice will also show on the subpages of the page.


 * Talkpagetext:
 * The message "<tvar|1>MediaWiki:Talkpagetext</>" is loaded on any talk page as well. This corresponds to all "<tvar|1>MediaWiki:Editnotice-X</>" messages together, where <tvar|x>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 "<tvar|1>MediaWiki:Editinginterface</>" is displayed while editing MediaWiki messages, above "<tvar|2>MediaWiki:Editnotice-8</>" (<tvar|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 "<tvar|1>MediaWiki:Newarticletext</>" is displayed.