Template talk:Editnotice

Cascading protection

Using cascading protection largely defeats the purpose of putting the documentation on a separate page. — CharlotteWebb 15:22, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it seems unnecessary to have cascading protection on this one, since the only things transcluded into the template are put in the noinclude area. But on the other hand, the only users who will be using this template are admins, so I think the users of this template will have a problem updating the /doc. But then again, users from other projects will sooner or later visit here to put interwiki links here.

--David Göthberg (talk) 15:32, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see Pegasus removed the cascading protection. So this is now fixed.

--David Göthberg (talk) 15:07, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could you document the other parameters please? Thanks. SharkD (talk) 16:00, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Creating the edit notices

So, who actually gets to create these edit notices? I tried navigating to a page I'd like to create an edit notice for, and I was presented with a message saying that I was unauthorized to do so. SharkD (talk) 01:44, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The notices are in the MediaWiki: namespace, so only administrators can edit them. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:26, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think what SharkD also wants to say (correct me if I'm wrong), but how do we get one of those messages of our own? Such as like a message that we can place on our own user page or user talk page for example. --Lightsup55 ( T | C ) 02:30, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Use an {{editprotected}} request on the MediaWiki_talk: page. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:15, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks! SharkD (talk) 15:29, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New code suggestions

I copied the code to the /sandbox and did some clean-up. I removed the surrounding div tag and moved those styles into the head of the table instead. Were there any technical reasons that made that div tag necessary?

And I have several other things that I would like to change, but that I haven't added yet in the version in the sandbox:

I would like to change the image handling to be more similar to the mboxes:

I think the image should have a cell that goes from top to bottom of the whole table, not just from top to bottom of the text cell height (excluding the header cell that is). This will make the image align in the middle of the entire table height.
I think that the image parameter instead of just taking an image name should should take an image with usual wiki notation. Since that gives the template users much greater freedom. Like this:

image = [[Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.png|40px]]

And I suggest we change the background colour of the box to use #F9F9F9. That is the colour most of our other boxes use such as MediaWiki:Sharedupload, MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext, the table of content, and the "other pages message boxes" {{ombox}} and so on.

--David Göthberg (talk) 15:38, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just base this on the {{mbox}} meta-template? --—— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk - 15:42, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright warning

Could the "Content that violates any copyright will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. You irrevocably agree to release your contributions under the terms of the GFDL*." warning be moved into an edit notice? Can edit notices be piped into each other (i.e., so that certain inmportant notices such as this one are never overridden)? Thanks. SharkD (talk) 15:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The "

By publishing changes, you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.

" copyright warning is (unsurprisingly) at MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning. Not sure what you mean by "piped together". An editnotice for an individual page will not override an editnotice for the page's namespace (it will appear directly below it), if that's what you mean. — CharlotteWebb 16:07, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]