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==Titles==
  
==Titles==

Revision as of 12:11, 6 November 2013

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Titles

Mediawiki

Example of text the page title, Mediawiki:Pagetitle, in this example, '$1 - Wikihowto: a howto site anyone can edit'

Mediawiki

Example of text added to search box, Mediawiki:Search, in this example 'search for a howto'


Article tabs

Mediawiki

Example of text for the edit tab, Mediawiki:Edit, in this example, 'edit this page'


Menus, lists

Mediawiki

Example of a sidebar, Mediawiki:Sidebar

  • Mediawiki:Sidebar: The links and sections on the side bar (ie on Wikihowto main, navigation, and page list sections.
  • MediaWiki:Licenses: List of available licenses for images/files appearing in a drop-down list on file upload page.
Mediawiki

Example of text for the NavLinks, Mediawiki:NavLinks

  • MediaWiki:NavLinks: The links at the top, "Home, Forum, Random Page, Create a new article" (for Wikia's quartz skin)



Upload page

MediaWiki SpecialUpload interface labelled

Configs for the upload pages

  • MediaWiki:License: the text before the license list. Default="License:"
  • MediaWiki:Licenses: List of available licenses for images/files appearing in a drop-down list on file upload page.
  • MediaWiki:Uploadtext: Text appearing on the upload page, including warnings about images without copyright information, etc.


Page name variables

Text added to specific pages

Mediawiki

Example of edit tools for creating a new article located under the edit box, MediaWiki:Edittools

  • MediaWiki:Edittools: Provides list of special characters appearing below edit box and save/preview buttons
  • MediaWiki:Sharedupload: Appears on the page of any image or file used in wikibooks but actually located on commons. Most wikis use a template linking to the commons page.
Mediawiki

Example of text for creating a new article, MediaWiki:Newarticletext


Text added to all pages

Mediawiki

Example of a site notice, MediaWiki:Sitenotice


  • MediaWiki:Sitenotice: Text that appears at the top of every page on the site, just below the tabs
  • MediaWiki:Tagline: The text appearing just below a page title (on wikibooks, this currently reads "From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection").

Configuration for whole site

Be careful with these

  • MediaWiki:Monobook.js: Contains scripts in JavaScript
  • MediaWiki:Monobook.css: Style sheet (CSS) defining site appearance in default skin.



Other

Uncategorized

  • MediaWiki:AdminSkin: Default skin used for page
  • MediaWiki:Tryexact
  • MediaWiki:Searchfulltext
  • MediaWiki:Fromwikipedia
  • MediaWiki:Linktrail
  • MediaWiki:Newmessagesdifflink

See Also

references


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