EVERY SINGLE TIME I open a new topic that hasn't been made before I get that little pop up telling me that I'm making a new page. I know ! It's like Navi from Zelda. Yeesh!
Can I turn it off?
Topic on VisualEditor/Feedback
These are likely editnotices, which are specifically added by the community of editors to show up every single time when editing a page or a namespace. Talk to your local community if there are notices that you think should not be shown.
@TheDJ I'm learning development and decided to start my own personal self hosted mediawiki wiki so I am the guy in charge of that, but I don't know how to do that, and I'm having trouble finding documentation on how to turn them off. Any pointers?
Perhaps removing the message or blanking it will turn it off?
@Thedonquixotic, did you get this sorted out yet?
@Whatamidoing (WMF) sadly no.
@Thedonquixotic Could you post a screenshot of the issue you are describing?
I think he's seeing (the local version of) MediaWiki:Newarticletext.
There doesn't appear to be a config option to disable those messages, but if you set that message to be the empty string on your local wiki (by editing the [[MediaWiki:Newarticletext]] page) then VE should automatically detect that the message is empty and no render the popup, I think.
@ESanders (WMF), no, unfortunately not, after clearing MediaWiki:Newarticletext I then get an empty popup with just the message "1 notice".
Filed as T265798
Thanks. So the only way to achieve this is hack the VE code?
If you are using a specific version of MediaWiki, you will need to apply the patch attached to the above task. Once merged it will be available in the master branch and the next version of MediaWiki.
@ESanders (WMF), oh, now I see, I thought it was a existing task, but you added in response to my comment. Thanks.