Memory Alpha:Template

Introduction

The MediaWiki custom messages are a way to create standardized blocks of text. In order to create a new custom message, simply create a page in the MediaWiki namespace, named "MediaWiki:", followed by a name for the message, that contains the text of the message. You may want to consider protecting the messages you create (if you have administrator privileges), but see the talk page for a discussion of this. Please list any custom messages you create on this page.

There are two major ways to include custom messages, subst and msg. subst makes a copy of the message text and places it where you put the tag after you save an article (substitution), msg loads the message and puts it on the page every time you load it.

In other words, when the message is updated, you do not need to update a page that uses it if you use msg. As a guideline, short, temporal messages that will be removed soon should be copied using subst (which has the advantage of showing the message in the wiki source), and standard notices that might remain on a page for months or forever should be transcluded for easy updating. (You should not use msg for a message which contain any links which may change in the future. This method doesn't refresh "What links here" unless every article containing the msg get changed after the modification of the link in the message.)

When you add new MediaWiki custom messages, please help keep the table in alphabetical order.

General Messages

Name	Current Text
{{msg:attentionneeded}}	Template:Attentionneeded
{{msg:constedits}}	Template:Constedits
{{msg:copyvio}}	Possible copyright infringement The text of this article has been removed because of a possible copyright infringement. The text that was previously posted here is the same as text that can be found here: {{{source}}} This page is now listed on our possible copyright infringements page. Please do not edit this page until the copyright issue is resolved, even if you are rewriting it – follow the instructions below, instead. If there was permission to use this material under terms of our license or if you are the copyright holder of the externally linked text and want to re-publish your text using the license linked to above, please indicate this on the talk page. If there was no permission to use this text, please rewrite the page at Memory Alpha:Template/temp, or leave this page to be deleted. Deletion will occur about one week from the time this page title was placed on the possible copyright infringements page. If a temp page is created, it will be moved here following deletion of the original. In any case, please read our copyrights page to avoid future confusion.
{{msg:copyvio1}}	Template:Copyvio1
{{msg:copyvio2}}	Template:Copyvio2
{{msg:copyvioimage}}	Template:Copyvioimage
{{msg:deletion}}	Template:Deletion
{{msg:deletionimage}}	Template:Deletionimage
{{msg:disambig}}	Template:Disambig
{{msg:fac}}	Template:Fac
{{msg:factualerror}}	Template:Factualerror
{{msg:farc}}	See link for text.
{{msg:FeatNom}}	See link for text.
{{msg:Featured}}	This is a featured article. At the time it was featured, it was considered one of the best examples of the Memory Alpha community's work. If you see a way this page can be improved further though, we invite you to contribute. Revision ID missing! • Date missing! • Blurb
{{msg:ifd}}	See link for text.
{{msg:imagecopyright}}	Template:Imagecopyright
{{msg:imagefairuse}}	Template:Imagefairuse
{{msg:imageparamount}}	Template:Imageparamount
{{msg:international}}	български (Bulgarian) català (Catalan) čeština (Czech) Deutsch (German) español (Spanish) Esperanto français (French) italiano (Italian) 日本語 (Japanese) Mirror Universe (English) Nederlands (Dutch) polski (Polish) português (Portuguese) română (Romanian) русский (Russian) Српски језик (Serbian) svenska (Swedish) українська (Ukranian) 简体中文 (Chinese) Start a new edition!
{{msg:internationalshort}}	Template:Internationalshort
{{msg:inuse}}	NoticeThis article is currently undergoing a major edit. As a courtesy, in order to avoid edit conflicts, please do not make edits to this article while this message is posted.
{{msg:sandbox}}	Shortcut: MA:SAND To use the sandbox, click on edit this page, scroll down to find where to make your changes, and click Save page when you are finished. The sandbox is for editing experiments only. Feel free to try out your skills at formatting here, where no one will criticize your edits. Note that content added here will not stay permanently.
{{msg:stub}}	This article is a stub. You can help Memory Alpha by fixing it.
{{msg:test}}	Template:Test
{{msg:tenforward}}	See link for text.
{{msg:vfd}}	See link for text.

Article Headers and Footers

Name	Current Text
{{msg:compactTOC}}	Table of Contents 0-9 • A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z
{{msg:Dax}}	Template:Dax
{{msg:DWB}}	Template:DWB
{{msg:namelistnote}}	Template:Namelistnote

Main Page Content

Monthly Features

Name	Current Text
{{msg:TrekHistoryJanuary}}	Template:TrekHistoryJanuary
{{msg:TrekHistoryFebruary}}	Template:TrekHistoryFebruary
{{msg:TrekHistoryMarch}}	Template:TrekHistoryMarch
{{msg:TrekHistoryApril}}	Template:TrekHistoryApril
{{msg:TrekHistoryMay}}	Template:TrekHistoryMay
{{msg:TrekHistoryJune}}	Template:TrekHistoryJune
{{msg:TrekHistoryJuly}}	Template:TrekHistoryJuly
{{msg:TrekHistoryAugust}}	Template:TrekHistoryAugust
{{msg:TrekHistorySeptember}}	Template:TrekHistorySeptember
{{msg:TrekHistoryOctober}}	Template:TrekHistoryOctober
{{msg:TrekHistoryNovember}}	Template:TrekHistoryNovember
{{msg:TrekHistoryDecember}}	Template:TrekHistoryDecember

Featured Articles

Name	Current Text
{{msg:Latestepisodes}}	Template:Latestepisodes
{{msg:Populartopics}}	Template:Populartopics
{{msg:Unwrittentopics}}	Survival‏‎ (links) • Band (links) • Shirt (links) • Stalemate‏‎ (links) • Audio signal (links) • Subatomic particle (links) • Test subject‏‎ (links) • [edit]
{{msg:Mustreads}}	Template:Mustreads
{{msg:ArticleOfTheWeek}}	Template:ArticleOfTheWeek
{{msg:DidYouKnow}}	Template:DidYouKnow

Other

• Memory Alpha:Book Sources - for the Special:Booksources page.