Forum:Redirecting Community Corner edit

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In the Community Messages box, in the siderail at Special:WikiActivity, there is a little highlighted phrase"edit message >"that takes one to MediaWiki:Community-corner. The text for the link is stored at MediaWiki:Myhome-community-corner-edit. The URL associated with it is  . I would like to change that address to something else. How would I do that? Thanks! — Spike Toronto  12:48, August 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * Mine doesn't have any "edit message" so I don't know what you are talking about. It's possible that I have something disabled that doesn't show that thing in my community messages.
 * Also, I think changing that thing for the whole wiki is against the rules.


 * Nidek, is your tilde key broken? ;-)
 * SpikeToronto, since changing the link is not a UI presentation issue, Nidek is probably correct that is a ToU violation. Also, link targets are not usually part of the MediaWiki: susceptible changes. If this is something you want just for you, your best bet is to find out the HTML around the link and use JS to re-write the link.
 * Why do you want to change this link? It only shows up for admins anyway. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 10 Aug 2011 8:58 PM Pacific

I honestly do not think that it’s a TOU issue. No functionality is being limited. All that link is intended for is to take an Administrator to the location for him/her to edit Community messages. However, if a wiki has moved that location elsewhere, then the link is useless and confusing. Thus, it is not acting as intended.""Rather than having to type messages twice — once for Oasis, and once for Monobook — we use RSW’s system of feeding the two skin’s central announcement systems from one file: Template:Wiki News. That way, new announcements only have to be typed once, but users see the message regardless of which of the two skins they are working in.""The problem is that the edit message >   link currently takes Administrators to MediaWiki:Community-corner: the wrong place. We need it to take them to Template:Wiki News. It’s as simple as that. We need to change the    associated with it from

/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Community-corner&action=edit to

/index.php?title=Template:Wiki News&action=edit I hope that clears things up. Sorry I wasn’t clearer earlier. Thanks! — Spike Toronto  05:56, August 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah, now I see what you mean.
 * Since that is only available to administrators it's not hard to give the JS to the (limited and usually very few) administrators for them to put in their personal JS.
 * I have no idea of what the RSW system is so I can't give any ideas about that.

09:11, August 11, 2011 (UTC)