Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace

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The MediaWiki namespace is a mechanism allowing non-developers to customise or translate the MediaWiki web interface. Each message in the $wgAllMessagesEn array in Language.php corresponds to a page in the MediaWiki namespace. For example, the "from Wikipedia" message which is displayed at the top of each page and reads "From Free net encyclopedia", is configurable at MediaWiki:Tagline.

Because the changes to these pages have a global effect, only administrators have the ability to edit them. Non-admins who would like to suggest a change can do so at the Wikipedia:Village pump, this page's discussion page, or the talk page of the associated MediaWiki: message.

For instructions on using this namespace, and for more information about it, please see meta:MediaWiki namespace.

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List of system messages

All of the special system messages are viewable from Special:Allmessages. Each listing provides a link to the message and its talk page. The listing also displays the default and current versions of the interface messages.

Caution: Some messages must have HTML links, and others must have wikilinks. To find out which is which, you must know where the message is used in the interface.

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History

Until June 2004, the MediaWiki namespace was also used for creating other boilerplate text messages, to be used in articles. This function was replaced with the Template namespace as a function of the "Template namespace initialisation script", a bot ran by developer Tim Starling. All non-system messages were moved to new namespace, and many redirects still exist. The initialisation script also replaced MediaWiki: references in articles with Template: in order to bypass the redirects. In October to November 2005, the excess redirects were deleted.

In order to see a list of some messages which were part of the MediaWiki namespace, refer to the following pages:

~~Wikipedia:All pages in the MediaWiki namespace~~
- Deleted on 18 August 2005 (deletion debate) as redundant with the MediaWiki namespace filter of Special:Allpages [1].
Wikipedia:Unprotected MediaWiki messages – a deprecated list showing which of the interface messages were previously unprotected

For a short time, before the renaming from votes for deletion to articles for deletion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion used MediaWiki: messages named in the format "MediaWiki:VfD-articlename". These were moved to the Template: space in June 2004 and are now (as of January 2006) subpages of wikipedia:Articles for deletion or wikipedia:Votes for deletion.

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Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace

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List of system messages

History

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