Help:Administrator's Handbook/MediaWiki: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 00:51, 20 January 2024

This is one of Pikmin Fanon's help pages and is meant to aid users by improving their ability to positively contribute to the wiki. Expanding pages such as this with additional information is always welcome.

In the MediaWiki namespace, a page is called an interface page. Only administrators and interface administrators can edit pages in this namespace. In addition, pages in this namespace ending with .css or .js are furthermore restricted to interface administrators. However, all editors can propose changes on appropriate talk pages.

This 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 a list of special characters appearing below the edit box and save/preview buttons.
MediaWiki:Licenses: list of available licenses for images/files appearing in a drop-down list on the file upload page.
MediaWiki:Revertpage: text added to the edit summary when using the rollback tool.
MediaWiki:Sidebar: defines 'navigation' box in the top-left corner, and allows for the creation of other navigation boxes.
MediaWiki:Sitenotice: text that appears at the top of every page around the site, and below the tabs.
MediaWiki:Tagline: the text appearing below the page's title.
MediaWiki:Uploadtext: text appearing on the upload page, including warnings about files without copyright information, etc.

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-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 [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Interface_messages here].
+{{help|admin=y}}
+In the '''MediaWiki [[Help:Namespace|namespace]]''', a page is called an interface page. Only [[Help:Group rights#Administrators|administrators]] and [[Help:Group rights#Interface administrators|interface administrators]] can edit pages in this namespace. In addition, pages in this namespace ending with <code>.css</code> or <code>.js</code> are furthermore restricted to interface administrators. However, all editors can propose changes on appropriate talk pages.
-*[[MediaWiki:Uploadtext]] &ndash; Text appearing on the upload page, including warnings about images without copyright information, etc.
+This 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 [[mw:Category:Interface messages|here]].
-*[[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] &ndash; Text that appears at the top of every page on the site, just below the tabs
-*[[MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning2]] &ndash; The copyright warning that appears below the edit window.
-*[[MediaWiki:Common.css]] &ndash; Style sheet (CSS) defining site appearance, common to all skins
-*[[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]] &ndash; Contains scripts in JavaScript
-*[[MediaWiki:Edittools]] &ndash; Provides list of special characters appearing below edit box and save/preview buttons
-*[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] &ndash; Defines 'navigation' box in top-left corner, and allows for the creation of other navigation boxes
-*[[MediaWiki:Revertpage]] &ndash; Text added to the edit summary when using the rollback tool.
-*[[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] &ndash; Style sheet (CSS) defining site appearance in default skin.
-*[[MediaWiki:Licenses]] &ndash; List of available licenses for images/files appearing in a drop-down list on file upload page.
-*[[MediaWiki:Newmessagesdifflink]]
-*[[MediaWiki:Mainpage]]
-*[[MediaWiki:Sharedupload]] &ndash; Appears on the page of any image or file used on Pikcanon-NOT but actually located on commons. Most wikis use a template linking to the commons page.
-*[[MediaWiki:Tagline]] &ndash; The text appearing just below a page title
-[[Category:Administrator's Handbook]]
+*[[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 a list of special characters appearing below the edit box and save/preview buttons.
+*[[MediaWiki:Licenses]]: list of available licenses for images/files appearing in a drop-down list on the file upload page.
+*[[MediaWiki:Revertpage]]: text added to the edit summary when using the rollback tool.
+*[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]: defines 'navigation' box in the top-left corner, and allows for the creation of other navigation boxes.
+*[[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]: text that appears at the top of every page around the site, and below the tabs.
+*[[MediaWiki:Tagline]]: the text appearing below the page's title.
+*[[MediaWiki:Uploadtext]]: text appearing on the upload page, including warnings about files without copyright information, etc.