Topic on Template talk:Main page

Depotadore (talkcontribs)

Hello everyone reading or scrolling by =). I want to know why you can't just edit the main page of mediawiki by clicking edit and editing that way it's makes way more sense and it less confuses me and if i want to edit it i have to go to this page and then edit this it just makes no sense to and do you have the same problem as me?

AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Because it uses the TemplateStyles extension for CSS.

Tacsipacsi (talkcontribs)

No, TemplateStyles doesn’t justify this: nothing prescribes that Template:Main page/styles.css has to be loaded by Template:Main page (it’s just a convention), nor that TemplateStyles pages have to be in the Template namespace (it’s also just a convention, except that .css subpages outside of the Template namespace aren’t automatically TemplateStyles subpages – but any admin can make them such).

The real reason is that MediaWiki displays the main page in your user language rather than in English, and while it’s possible to do this while keeping the source code there, the result would be complicated and easy to break.

Depotadore (talkcontribs)

Ah it's CSS bugs