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Messages are used to generate text for the system interface. They are typically—and ideally—defined within ResourceLoader modules, so that they may be retrieved within JavaScript functions, and so interlanguage translation can be applied.

Values can be overridden by manually creating the respective MediaWiki: page title. This is done as sparingly as possible, for the aforementioned considerations as well as performance. Most are fully new (English-only) snippets which both aren't meant to be referenced outside their intended environment, and are dynamic enough for on-wiki editing to be convenient.

Overview

Core messages should be approached knowing (in most cases) they won't carry over to the foreign languages—any new functionalities are preferably integrated within the actual software code, wherever the message is called.

Whenever possible, fully local messages (those not bundled with MediaWiki or public extensions) should leverage the latter to fullest extent; the {{int:msg_name}} magic word can be used to substitute another localized message as a term or part of another. Otherwise, custom modules like the Vehicle Database or account reclaim are written only in English across all language modes (though translation work is welcome and would be highly appreciated!)

All system messages, with comparisons for on-wiki overrides, can be browsed here.

Core changes

Some messages have been directly edited in /languages/i18n/en.json:

Line	Title	Scope	Former	Current	Notes
`241`	`mainpage-description`	Main Page	Main page	Home	Simplicity
`423`	`userlogin-remembermypassword`	Special:UserLogin	Keep me logged in	Remember me
`446`	`userlogin-resetpassword-link`	Special:UserLogin	Forgot your password?	Forgot password?
`1850`	`upload-maxfilesize`	Special:Upload	Maximum file size: $1	Max file size: '''$1'''	@todo Bold wanted on all languages but difficult because of `sizeParams` method use in `UploadForm.php`
`3879`	`tag-mw-contentmodelchange`	Diff tags	content model change	Content model change	Uppercase for consistency
+`4610`	`group-developer`			Developer	User group differentiation
+`4611`	`group-developer-member`			developer	User group differentiation
+`4612`	`contactpage`	Skin component (footer)		Special:Contact	Contact link; may be moved/changed

The following extension files have been edited:

/extensions/AjaxPoll/i18n/en.json

On-wiki overrides

Configuration

Interface

Msg. Name	Scope
Sidebar	Content links and tools on the left navigation.	compare
Copyright	Legal notice for the footer.	compare
Aboutpage	"About" surrogate - currently the fork announcement for simplicity.	compare
Sitenotice	Notice on the top of every page.	compare
Sitenotice id	Changing the number will reset the site notice (see above) for any users who previously "dismissed" it.	compare
Recentchangestext	Top text (navigation links) for the Special:RecentChanges feed.	compare
Recentchanges-staffkey	Staff highlights key added to Special:RecentChanges. @todo Handle "Staff" and "Developer" keys (possibly use interface-admin fallback)	compare
Deletedtext-postnav	Extension of deletedtext adding nav-links to pending deletions, maintenance lists, etc.	compare
Filedelete-success-postnav	Same as above for filedelete-success i.e. when a file is deleted.	compare

Page-specific:

Msg. Name	Scope
Createtext	Message block header for Special:CreatePage.	compare
Contactpage-pagetext	Contact - Header text	compare
Accountreclaim	ReclaimAccount - Header text	compare
Notificationemail account reclaim	Auto-email returned upon submitting a reclaim ticket. A random Cars character name is included for use in verifying ownership.	compare
Reclaim-banner	UserLogin - Notice box to inform legacy users of the account reclaim feature.	compare

Dropdown options

Msg. Name	Scope
Licenses	Licenses for the upload form (see image policy.)	compare
Deletereason-dropdown	Deleting a page	compare
Filedelete-reason-dropdown	Deleting a file	compare
Protect-dropdown	Protecting a page or file	compare
Ipboptions	Durations for blocking a user	compare
Ipbreason-dropdown	Reasons for blocking a user	compare
Pageimages-denylist	List of images which won't appear as the designated page image, namely as the search thumbnail	compare

Edit notices (blank otherwise)

Msg. Name	Scope
Editnotice-8	`MediaWiki:` pages - editor	compare
Editnotice-10	`Template:` pages - editor	compare
Editnotice-14	`Category:` pages - editor	compare

Non-i18n extension banners:

Msg. Name	Scope
Cargo-definestable	Templates which declare a Cargo table.	compare
Scribunto-doc-page-does-not-exist	Lua modules	compare

Help links

Msg. Name	Scope	Referrer	Target
Helppage	Editpage	newarticletext, etc.	[[1]]
Policy-url	NS	`Help :`	Help:Delete
Pagecategorieslink	NS	`Category :`	Pixar Cars Wiki:Categories
Preferences-helppage	Special	Preferences	Help:Preferences
Helplogin-url	Special	UserLogin	Pixar Cars Wiki:Getting started
Upload-helppage	Special	Upload	Help:Image
Recentchanges-helppage	Special	RecentChanges	Help:Editing

Undocumented messages