MediaWiki talk:Edit

message: I suggest the admins should relive April Fool's 2005 on Wikipedia and change it to vandalise this page again... --WhiteTimberwolf 08:28, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: April Fool's Day 2005

message: Occasionally, the "edit this page" tab appears simply as "edit" (and sometimes the text is no longer bold...or is that just my own CSS? I forget).  Any explanations? —Mulad (talk) 18:12, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
Er, wait..  from Wikipedia:Village pump:
: Developers aren't changing anything, and no-one is messing around.  "edit" is the default text, and mediawiki:edit has been changed to read "edit this page". Normally, mediawiki:edit overrides the default, but sometimes, when the database server has a hiccup, mediawiki is forced to use the installation default. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 11:12, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the tab sometimes appear as only "Edit" instead of "Edit this page" 

message: Is there a way to make the "Edit this page" tab say "Edit"? Dagoth Ur, Mad God (talk) 10:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Adding the above snippet to your monobook.js should do it. —Animum (talk) 05:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CSS 

message: Now that Vector is the default for anon users, should this be changed (back?) to just "Edit"? I took notice of this from a Help Desk post where :template:HD/fix was left for a new user who was pointing out a change that needed to be made. Since that template tells the new user to click the "Edit this page" link sourced from here, should this now be changed to reflect the default user experience? ArakunemTalk 19:20, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Proposed (and asked) at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Change the "Edit" tab to "Edit source" in all namespaces. and MediaWiki talk:Vector-view-edit. See the VPT thread for some feedback. –Quiddity (talk) 15:08, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think the problem with changing the tab to edit is that if you change it to that, the messages on the protected pages will say "You do not have permission to edit for the following reason" or "You do not have permission to edit source for the following reason.  Ups and Downs (↕) 06:20, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit vs. Edit This Page Revisited 

message: With WP:VisualEditor in the midst of arriving, and the default for some namespaces (initially) being "Edit/Edit source" (and "Edit" leading to the VE engine), we should change this mediawiki message to "Edit source". 
(Once I figure out where vector's "Edit" comes from, I'll propose the change there, too) –Quiddity (talk) 04:52, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Proposed (and asked) at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Change the "Edit" tab to "Edit source" in all namespaces. and MediaWiki talk:Vector-view-edit. See the VPT thread for some feedback. –Quiddity (talk) 15:08, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think the problem with changing the tab to edit is that if you change it to that, the messages on the protected pages will say "You do not have permission to edit for the following reason" or "You do not have permission to edit source for the following reason.  Ups and Downs (↕) 06:20, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: 2013 update - change to "Edit source"

message: Please delete this system message to sync it with MediaWiki:Vector-view-edit and MediaWiki:Skin-view-edit. I can't figure out if this system message is still used or if it is no longer defined, but I don't think there is a good reason why this message is out of sync with all the other "edit" buttons. Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 17:42, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAIK this is still used in parts of older skins like monobook (comments on phab:T310529 suggest that as well) - where it has been stable for almost 20 years. — xaosflux Talk 22:29, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 21 March 2023