[WikiEN-l] Monobook suddenly changed?

Fri Jun 23 01:33:31 UTC 2006

Most non trivial MediaWiki changes are generally at least mentioned on the 
associated MediaWiki_talk: pages.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Bain" <stephen.bain at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Monobook suddenly changed?

> On 6/23/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Technically these are not changes to the monobook skin itself but to
>> some of the messages (from the msg: namespace) that are transcluded
>> into the interface by it.  These messages are editable (although many
>> are protected and thus editable only by admins) and there has not
>> been, up to now, any formal procedure for approving changes to them.
>> They are handled like policy pages and the like.
>
> It's the MediaWiki namespace actually. The whole namespace is only
> ever editable by admins, and cannot be unprotected.
>
>> Currently we have no global warnings if someone edits policy pages 
>> either.
>>
>> Perhaps it would be a good idea, but it would be a significant change
>> to the way things are done.
>
> It's easier to keep track of changes to MediaWiki pages, just select
> the MediaWiki namespace in Recent Changes like so:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ARecentchanges&namespace=8
>
> -- 
> Stephen Bain
> stephen.bain at gmail.com
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