User:Davidgothberg/Test35

Improved editnotice system

MediaWiki uses numbers and hyphens "-" in the editnotice names. This causes problems since in template programming we can not convert back to a slashed "/" page name from such a hyphenated name. These names are also hard for humans to handle.

But we can put code in the main "hyphen-style" editnotice for each namespace that in turn loads "slash-style" editnotices for a page. This gives us several nice possibilities:

1: We can load "user editnotices" from user space that the users can edit themselves. (We already do this, but we can improve it.)

2: We can make two different types of editnotices: One type that is only shown on the one page it was made for, and a page group type that is shown on its own page and all its subpages. The current hyphen-style editnotices are only of the page group type, they are always shown on the subpages too, which can be confusing.

3: We can automatically (at load time) add view links on top of the editnotices so it is easy to find them and edit them.

4: A slash-style editnotice can link back to its subject page since we can convert back and forth between a page name and its editnotice name using only template code. In fact, the loader can automatically show that link as an editnotice when editing the editnotice, thus it doesn't have to be in the editnotice's code.

All this might sound a bit tricky, but we can make it very user-friendly.

The sections below show what addresses the old and new type of editnotices have for this page and some related pages.

Hyphen style

This is the old system.

This namespace: MediaWiki:Editnotice-2 (talk)
Parent page: MediaWiki:Editnotice-2-Davidgothberg (talk)

This page: MediaWiki:Editnotice-2-Davidgothberg-Test35 (talk)

Slash style, for admins

For most namespaces we probably should use editnotices that only can be edited by admins.

This namespace: MediaWiki:Editnotice/User (talk)

This page: MediaWiki:Editnotice/User/Davidgothberg/Test35 (talk)

For its talk page: MediaWiki:Editnotice/User talk/Davidgothberg/Test35 (talk)

Page group: MediaWiki:Editnotice-group/User/Davidgothberg (talk)

Talk page group: MediaWiki:Editnotice-group/User talk/Davidgothberg (talk)

Slash style, for users

For user space and perhaps template space we probably should use editnotices that can be edited by any user. Here the talkpage of an editnotice is the editnotice for the corresponding user talk page.

This page: User:Davidgothberg/Test35/Editnotice

For its talk page: User talk:Davidgothberg/Test35/Editnotice

Page group: User:Davidgothberg/Editnotice-group

Talk page group: User talk:Davidgothberg/Editnotice-group

More examples?

The text and links this box shows was produced by the template {{Wikipedia:Editnotice/linkdemo}}. You can put this template on any page to see the links to the different possible editnotices for that page. You can use edit preview so you don't need to save this template on the page.