MediaWiki talk:Semiprotectedpagewarning

Minor update -- Pyrrhus (talk) 12:08, August 13, 2019 (EDT)
Non-urgent request: Please change the text on this page to the following, which clarifies that only "established" users can edit semiprotected pages. Thanks! Pyrrhus (talk) 12:08, August 13, 2019 (EDT)

Note: This page has been protected so that only established users can edit it. The latest log entry is provided below for reference:

Future suggestion
MediaWiki has a great padlock symbol eh message, we could copy that but using the message we already have. It uses Template:Fmbox. We already have padlock images for Full and Semi protection uploaded. Links below Njt (talk) 18:59, September 27, 2019 (EDT) Semi-protection example and Full protection example

Semi-protected example (based on MediaWiki code)
The latest log entry is provided below for reference:

Full protection example (based on MediaWiki code)
The latest log entry is provided below for reference:

Talk page messages
We could also add text suggesting they use the talk page, eg

Use the |talk page to request changes to this page.


 * User:Pyrrhus the code above will create a link to the talk page of whichever page is being edited. The layout looks bad with the new padlock - squashed and I would have expected the image on the right instead. What about using the newly created Template:Protected, which we can then tweak (and fully protect when finished). The code for this at the moment would be:


 * Showing:

Any existing message could go under it, possibly in bold. The template approach is currently used on Wikipedia and MediaWiki. Font size, background color, border, padding etc are all easy to change. ~Njt (talk) 08:29, October 1, 2019 (EDT)