Manual:Page customizations

These are pages not existing in vanilla MediaWiki which interface definition files (in any language) expect to exist. If you want to avoid broken links in your wiki's interface you need to either create these pages or change the messages, see Fixing pages below for more details.

Here are the messages in a default MediaWiki that reference pages (not all of them used on MediaWiki.org, hence some are red links in this table).

Interface message	Default value	Linked from
MediaWiki:aboutpage	Project:About	Footer
MediaWiki:copyrightpage	Project:Copyrights	Edit view
MediaWiki:disambiguationspage (replaced by Extension:Disambiguator in 1.22)	Template:disambig	Nowhere (it's not a link)
MediaWiki:disclaimerpage	Project:General disclaimer	Footer
MediaWiki:edithelppage	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Editing_pages	Editing help link under edit box.
MediaWiki:helppage	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents	Help link on the sidebar.
MediaWiki:faqpage	Project:FAQ	Used only by CologneBlue skin.
MediaWiki:grouppage-bot	{{ns:project}}:Bots	Special:ListGroupRights
MediaWiki:grouppage-bureaucrat	{{ns:project}}:Bureaucrats	Special:ListGroupRights
MediaWiki:grouppage-sysop	{{ns:project}}:Administrators	Special:ListGroupRights
MediaWiki:helplogin-url (new in 1.22)	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Logging_in	Special:UserLogin
MediaWiki:mainpage	Main page	Nowhere (defines the main page)
MediaWiki:policy-url (new since r119724)	Project:Policy	??
MediaWiki:privacypage	Project:Privacy policy	Footer
"(namespace-X|action name|special page name)-helppage" system message	Project:PD help pages	Indicators of several special pages and some actions or namespaces.

On your local System messages special page you can search for interface strings using these page definitions.

Fixing page

To fix these broken links, you (or an administrator on your wiki) can:

Create the missing page

Just visit it on your wiki, create it and start writing. MediaWiki.org has suitable help material you can paste or import into your wiki. You can make the page a #REDIRECT to another page.

Link to a different page

Edit the interface message by visiting its page in the MediaWiki: namespace and change it to a different page title, or possibly an external URL.

Remove the link

You can edit the message to not have a link. In some cases you need to rephrase or blank out a different interface message(s) that incorporate the interface message with the URL. For example, helplogin-url is the link in userlogin-helplink, so if you don't wish to provide this guidance, you can blank out MediaWiki:userlogin-helplink. Since removing the text in a message resets it to the default for your language, you should blank out a message by changing it to an HTML comment such as <!-- blank since this wiki does not currently provide login assistance -->