Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-15636815-20151104192405

The Help:System messages/whitelist page lists several pages in the MediaWiki namespace that are available for admins to edit. Specifically:
 * section: CSS lists 5 pages by name and adds 'plus other pages that end in "css"'.
 * section: Other messages lists 60 pages by name, plus all pages starting with the pattern, Custom-*.

I am an admin on TrainStation Wiki. When I view the Special:Allpages page and filter for the MediaWiki namespace, I see eight pages listed. Yeah, 8. Six of those are items on the 'Other messages' list on the whitelist page. The other two are 'TwitterWidget' and 'Wikia.js', the latter containing only the code for ExtendedNavigation.

What gives? According to the whitelist, I should see a minimum of 65 pages listed for the MediaWiki namespace. I read posts by other Wikians asking how to accomplish something, and I sometimes decide to try them on our wiki. However, it is literally impossible for me to follow such basic instructions as, 'Open your "MediaWiki:Newarticletext" page', or 'Edit your "MediaWiki:Wikia.css" and add this code.'

This makes me feel really stupid, like I'm totally oblivious to something that's glaringly obvious to all seven billion other humans on this planet. I would really appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction and unstupidifying me, even if only by a tiny amount. 