MediaWiki is the wiki software powering Wikipedia. Parts of its interface are provided by customizable "interface messages" which can be edited by administrators.

v • d • e Key MediaWiki interface messages Edit window instructions Wikimedia-copyrightwarning · Summary · Wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary · Edittools.js · Edittools Signup/login page Fancycaptcha-createaccount · Prefs-help-email · Signupend · Loginend · Welcomecreation Search-related searchmenu-new · searchmenu-exists  · search-nonefound Article related Noarticletext · Movepagetext · Movepage-moved Edit notices Protectedpagewarning · Semiprotectedpagewarning · Newarticletext "Can't edit" notices Protectedpagetext · Nocreatetext · Blockedtext · Autoblockedtext  · Spamprotectiontext  · Titleprotected Admin action messages Protect-text · Confirmdeletetext · Deletedtext

• The template {{MediaWiki messages}} (shown above) lists a selection of key messages. Not included are
  • Abusefilter warnings, as there many of these, and they can be found here.
  • Tags added automatically to edit summaries by edit filters, which are listed at Special:Tags.
  • Messages describing Preferences options (Mediawiki:Tog-) - Search for these
  • Messages providing tooltips (Mediawiki:Tooltip-) - Search for these
  • Messages relating to Cite.php are listed and discussed at Help talk:Cite errors.
  • MediaWiki:Uploadtext and related subpages (the subpages transclude pages from Wikipedia: space) - these are covered at Wikipedia talk:Upload.
  • CSS files, which are described at MediaWiki talk:Common.css.
  • Gadget-related messages - Gadgets
• The template {{interface explanation}}, used on MediaWiki talk: pages (generally those with some discussion), adds pages it is on into Category:MediaWiki messages with interface explanation.
• A complete list is available at Special:Allmessages. MediaWiki messages serving the software default are called "unmodified" and appear as red links in the Allmessages list, and do not appear in a Prefix-based search as they don't technically exist as pages.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace / Help:MediaWiki namespace
• Template:MediaWiki redundant / Template:MediaWiki redirect
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/MediaWiki
• MediaWiki talk:Sitenotice - creating sitenotices
• Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests - on filing a "bug" to get the MediaWiki software fixed or enhanced. See also WP:DevMemo.
• Wikipedia:Template limits
• WP:Tools / Tools by tags - externally hosted tools which complement the MediaWiki software

[edit] External links

• www.mediawiki.org.