Wikipedia:Software notices

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It explains concepts or processes used by the Wikipedia community. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels of consensus.

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There are a number of software notices to display message(s) to broad sets of Wikipedians.

CentralNotice

Shows to all users on all projects (or all users in a specific language, depending). Controlled at meta:Special:CentralNotice. See also meta:CentralNotice.

Sitenotice

Shows to all users; appears above the page title. Dismissable and shows only to users with JavaScript support. Controlled by MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Sitenotice id.

Anonnotice

Shows to all anonymous users; if blank, the sitenotice shows to anons as well. Appears above the page title. Controlled by MediaWiki:Anonnotice. Not dismissable.

Watchlist notice

Shows to all users who use a watchlist. Appears above the horizontal rule on the watchlist. Controlled by MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages. Dismissable using JavaScript found in MediaWiki:Gadget-watchlist-notice.js (can be enabled or disabled through the Gadgets section of your Preferences).

Geonotice

A watchlist notice that only displays to users in a certain geographical area, although geolocation is not perfect. Added and controlled by MediaWiki:Gadget-geonotice.js. See Wikipedia:Geonotice. Dismissable by JavaScript.

Editnotices

Shows to all users who are able to edit the page. Appears above the edit textarea. More information available at Wikipedia:Editnotices.

v t e Key MediaWiki interface messages
Edit window instructions	Wikimedia-copyrightwarning Summary Minoredit Wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary Edittools Edithelppage
Search-related	searchmenu-new searchmenu-exists searchmenu-new-nocreate search-nonefound
Article-related	Noarticletext Movepagetext Movepage-moved Move-redirect-text
Edit notices	Anoneditwarning Anonpreviewwarning Newarticletext Mainspace editnotice
"Can't edit" notices	Protectedpagetext Cascadeprotected Nocreatetext Blockedtext Autoblockedtext Blockedtext-partial Protectedinterface Spamprotectiontext Titleprotected Titleblacklist-custom-editnotice
Admin action messages	Protect-text Confirmdeletetext Deletedtext Blockiptext
Email-related	Emailpagetext Emailsenttext Emailuserfooter Enotif body
Preferences	Tog-fancysig Prefs-help-email Prefs-help-watchlist-token2
Community notification	Watchlist-messages Badtitletext Tagline Cascadeprotectedwarning Protect-cascadeon Protectedpagemovewarning Protectedpagewarning Semiprotectedpagewarning Undo-failure Undo-nochange Undo-success Undo-summary Youhavenewmessages Youhavenewmessagesfromusers Sitenotice Redirectedfrom Revision-info Revision-info-current Recreate-moveddeleted-warn Editingold Gadget-geonotice-list.js Anonnotice
For messages relating to `Special:` pages, see the list at mw:Manual:Interface/Special pages summary

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