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Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/add MW messages to content pages

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add MW messages to content pages

  • Problem: Allow displaying automatic stuff on content pages via MediaWiki messages (notices, user warnings, auto categorization, ...)
  • Proposed solution: Talk pages have specific MediaWiki messages (MediaWiki:Editnotice-NS_number-article_name and MediaWiki:Editnotice-NS_number) that can be modified to show specific content on each talk page. I propose adding a similar option to content namespaces.
  • Who would benefit: all editors
  • More comments: It could be used to show instructions for new Draft pages automatically, to categorize all kinds of content automatically (drafts, documentation subpages, articles whose name begins a certain way), to show protection templates automatically, show messages at the top of user pages, etc.
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T151682
  • Proposer: —Ivi104 02:42, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • I do not understand this proposal. Maybe an example would help. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 07:23, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Pbsouthwood: When editing an article, there is no way to display a notice to say there is a draft page of the same name outside of manually including a template or module into every single page to check if a draft page exists. Similarly, when editing an existing draft, there is no way to display instructions or categorize the draft outside of adding a template to the top of every draft page. If a new editor makes a draft without a template, the draft is lost in the depths of the project until someone manually notices it and adds the template.
    I propose adding a MediaWiki system message to the top of content pages. Inside, we could check if the current page is in the draft namespace, and if so, show appropriate instructions, categorize the page automatically, and so forth.
    This feature exists when editing pages (MediaWiki:Editnotice-NS_number-article_name and MediaWiki:Editnotice-NS_number) and talk pages have their own system messages (MediaWiki:Talkpageheader and MediaWiki:Talkpagetext). I propose a new system message be added to the top of existing content pages. I hope this explanation conveys my idea. —Ivi104 01:16, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Would this system message just display automatically/bot generated information? · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 04:38, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to be an en.wp-only implementation which at first glance works for NS 0 (articles) as well. See en:Wikipedia:Editnotice for details. Improvements should probably be requested there.--Strainu (talk) 07:58, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you means edit notice in edit mode, see phab:T201613.--GZWDer (talk) 22:01, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Ivi104: are you wanting to have a per namespace site-notice (something that is displayed to readers)? If so, that is phab:T6469. (Though it seams you want a per-page-sitenotice ??) — xaosflux Talk 19:44, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    @Xaosflux: Yes, that is what I would like, a sitenotice that is displayed to readers. I was thinking of one notice, and parser functions could be used to display different content in different namespaces, but this idea of a separate notice for each namespace works well too. —Ivi104 22:22, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    So you want what we currently have for editnotices, but for all content. I think that is difficult because unlike edit pages, content is cached. So if anything changes about the 'calculation' (say a draft is created or deleted) it will take a LONG time for any notice to update. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:07, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

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