Extension:GlobalNotice

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GlobalNotice Release status:Extension status stable
ImplementationTemplate:Extension#type	Notify
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description	Global sitenotice(s) for wiki farms
Author(s)Template:Extension#username	Misza Jack Phoenix
Latest versionTemplate:Extension#version	0.4 (November 22, 2015 (2015-11-22))
MediaWikiTemplate:Extension#mediawiki	1.27+
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download snapshot (Git master) Git [?]: repo summary browse file tree (GitHub) commit history code review
ExampleTemplate:Extension#example	ShoutWiki
Hooks usedTemplate:Extension#hook SiteNoticeAfterManual:Hooks/SiteNoticeAfter EditPage::showEditForm:initialManual:Hooks/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

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called GlobalNotice in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

wfLoadExtension( 'GlobalNotice' );

• Y Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.24 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing extensions using wfLoadExtension(), since MediaWiki 1.25. If you need to install this extension in earlier versions, instead of wfLoadExtension( 'GlobalNotice' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/GlobalNotice/GlobalNotice.php";

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