Help:Administrator's Handbook/Interface page

Editing pages in the MediaWiki namespace is one of the more complicated and serious abilities of an administrator, and must be undertaken with extreme caution because it can change the appearance of the entire website. Below are some of the more common pages; a full list can be found here.


 * MediaWiki:Common.css Style sheet (CSS) defining site appearance, and common to all skins.
 * MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2 The copyright warning that appears below the edit window.
 * MediaWiki:Edittools Provides list of special characters appearing below edit box and save/preview buttons.
 * MediaWiki:Licenses List of available licenses for images/files appearing in a drop-down list on file upload page.
 * MediaWiki:Mainpage
 * MediaWiki:Monobook.css Style sheet (CSS) defining the site appearance of the Monobook skin.
 * MediaWiki:Monobook.js Javascript (JS) defining the site appearance of the Monobook skin.
 * MediaWiki:Newmessagesdifflink
 * MediaWiki:Revertpage Text added to the edit summary when using the rollback tool.
 * MediaWiki:Sharedupload Appears on the page of any image or file used on Pikmin Fanon but actually located on commons. Most wikis use a template linking to the commons page.
 * MediaWiki:Sidebar Defines 'navigation' box in top-left corner, and allows for the creation of other navigation boxes.
 * MediaWiki:Sitenotice Text that appears at the top of every page on the site, just below the tabs.
 * MediaWiki:Tagline The text appearing just below a page title.
 * MediaWiki:Uploadtext Text appearing on the upload page, including warnings about images without copyright information, etc.