Last modified: 2012-12-30 11:50:31 UTC
To avoid things like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=230829925&action=edit it would be great if it were possible to have customizable messages appear above the edit form for certain namespaces or articles. Using a standardized format like MediaWiki:Notice-edit-<page_title> or something similar, notices about article restrictions or particular concerns with a given page (or namespace) could be displayed regardless of whether someone uses the edit tab or section edits. The Template: namespace could have a message that explains the purpose and function of templates and their syntax, etc. Apologies if this is already filed elsewhere. I couldn't find anything similar.
Added in r39055. The edit page will now check for messages called MediaWiki:Editnotice-ns-# and MediaWiki:Editnotice-page-PAGENAME, where # and PAGENAME are the namespace and page name respectively, formatted in the same way the per-namespace/per-page CSS classes are, and display them above the edit form.
Reverted for now in r39081; the use of CSS class name formatting for message names doesn't really seem appropriate, as it's difficult to predict.
Ah, OK, good point. I've taken another whack at it in r39121 - now it uses DBkeys, which the user should be more familiar with, given they're used in URLs. :) (I've also fixed the inconsistency regarding wfMsgForContent() vs. $wgOut->addWikiMsg().)
*** Bug 7739 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 8260 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Per-article editnotices were reverted in r48276. Re-opening this bug for now.
Could we have dismissible editnotices, with cookie IDs like for the watchlist notice (working for anons too) ? This would allow to dismiss per-namespace editnotices, and pending resolution of bug 18596, dismiss per-category editnotices, so supersede the common.js hack (which adds an editintro).
r97686 restores per-article editnotices, seems to be unaware that it was previously removed. :) Unclear whether this will stay.
At the German Wikipedia this is already done with the parser function #ifexist, see http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Editnotice-0&action=edit. Of course it would be much cleaner if it was a mediawiki feature.
At this moment it looks like it is going to stay - the previous behavior was very inconsistent.
