Help:System messages

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System messages allow admins to customize the look of the wiki. A list of all existing system messages can be found at Special:AllMessages. Only administrators (and ShoutWiki Staff) can edit system messages; they're protected by default, so you don't need to worry about anonymous or registered users vandalizing your wiki's interface.

This page explains details about the most important system messages and is not meant to be a complete guide to all system messages that exist.

Look of the wiki

• MediaWiki:Common.css — the CSS page that is being loaded for all skins. See Help:CSS for more info.
• MediaWiki:Common.js — the JS page that is being loaded for all skins. See Help:JavaScript for more info.
• MediaWiki:Sidebar — the sidebar for most skins. See Help:Sidebar for more info.
• MediaWiki:Pagetitle — the title of all pages. By default, it is "$1 - {{SITENAME}}", where $1 is the title of the current page. You can edit it to add a short description of the wiki, e.g. "$1 - {{SITENAME}}, the foobar wiki" or such.
• MediaWiki:Mainpage — the title of the wiki's main page. By clicking the logo image, you will go into whatever page is defined in MediaWiki:Mainpage.

Sitenotice

See also: Help:Site notice

• MediaWiki:Sitenotice — allows admins to define a notice that shows up on all pages. See Help:Site notice for more info.
• MediaWiki:Sitenotice id — increment the number of this message every time you edit MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Doing so ensures that all your users will see the new sitenotice.
• MediaWiki:Anonnotice — sitenotice displayed to anonymous users. If it isn't defined, the notice at MediaWiki:Sitenotice will be used.

See also

• Information about system messages on MediaWiki.org, the official homepage of the software that runs ShoutWiki's wikis