The MediaWiki custom messages are a way to create standardized blocks of text. In order to create a new custom message, simply create a page in the MediaWiki namespace, named "MediaWiki:", followed by a name for the message, that contains the text of the message. You may want to consider protecting the messages you create (if you have administrator privileges), but see the talk page for a discussion of this. Please list any custom messages you create on this page.
There are two major ways to include custom messages, subst and msg. subst makes a copy of the message text and places it where you put the tag after you save an article (substitution), msg loads the message and puts it on the page every time you load it.
In other words, when the message is updated, you do not need to update a page that uses it if you use msg. As a guideline, short, temporal messages that will be removed soon should be copied using subst (which has the advantage of showing the message in the wiki source), and standard notices that might remain on a page for months or forever should be transcluded for easy updating. (You should not use msg for a message which contain any links which may change in the future. This method doesn't refresh "What links here" unless every article containing the msg get changed after the modification of the link in the message.)
When you add new MediaWiki custom messages, please help keep the table in alphabetical order.
General Messages
| Name | Current Text | |
|---|---|---|
| {{msg:attentionneeded}} | Template:Attentionneeded | |
| {{msg:compactTOC}} |
| |
| {{msg:constedits}} | Template:Constedits | |
| {{msg:copyvio1}} | Template:Copyvio1 | |
| {{msg:copyvio2}} | Template:Copyvio2 | |
| {{msg:deletion}} | Template:Deletion | |
| {{msg:disambig}} | Template:Disambig | |
| {{msg:factualerror}} | Template:Factualerror | |
| {{msg:imagecopyright}} | Template:Imagecopyright | |
| {{msg:imagefairuse}} | Template:Imagefairuse | |
| {{msg:imageparamount}} | Template:Imageparamount | |
| {{msg:international}} |
| |
| {{msg:internationalshort}} | Template:Internationalshort | |
| {{msg:inuse}} | Notice | |
| {{msg:sandbox}} |
To use the sandbox, click on edit this page, scroll down to find where to make your changes, and click Save page when you are finished. The sandbox is for editing experiments only. Feel free to try out your skills at formatting here, where no one will criticize your edits. Note that content added here will not stay permanently. | |
| {{msg:stub}} | ||
| {{msg:test}} | Template:Test |
Main Page Content
Monthly Features
| Name | Current Text |
|---|---|
| {{msg:TrekHistoryJanuary}} | Template:TrekHistoryJanuary |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryFebruary}} | Template:TrekHistoryFebruary |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryMarch}} | Template:TrekHistoryMarch |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryApril}} | Template:TrekHistoryApril |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryMay}} | Template:TrekHistoryMay |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryJune}} | Template:TrekHistoryJune |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryJuly}} | Template:TrekHistoryJuly |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryAugust}} | Template:TrekHistoryAugust |
| {{msg:TrekHistorySeptember}} | Template:TrekHistorySeptember |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryOctober}} | Template:TrekHistoryOctober |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryNovember}} | Template:TrekHistoryNovember |
| {{msg:TrekHistoryDecember}} | Template:TrekHistoryDecember |
Featured Articles
| {{msg:Latestepisodes}} | Template:Latestepisodes |
| {{msg:Populartopics}} | Template:Populartopics |
| {{msg:Unwrittentopics}} | Medical procedure (links) • Band (links) • Anchor (links) • Guilt (law) (links) • Problem (links) • Subatomic particle (links) • Collin Kelly (links) • [edit] |
| {{msg:Mustreads}} | Template:Mustreads |
Other
- Memory Alpha:Book sources - for the Special:Booksources page.