Help:Community messages

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Community messages is a feature that allows administrators to highlight things that are important for the local community to know about. For example, this space can be used to organise a project, show off new pages, or highlight an ongoing discussion.

Step by step

 * 1) The community message is located on the Wiki Activity page and can be edited by admins.
 * 2) If you are an administrator, you can change it by clicking on the "edit message" in the message. This will bring you to MediaWiki:Community-corner where you can edit the content and add as much information as you want. After publishing the edit, your changes will appear immediately.
 * 3) Users who are active on the community up to 24 hours after the community corner is changed will receive a notification about the change, similar to the notification for message wall messages. These will disappear after 24 hours if not dismissed by the user.
 * 4) Minor edits to community messages will not trigger notifications.
 * 5) If you would like to change the notification message itself (to perhaps make it more tailored to the colloquialisms of your communities topic), you can edit MediaWiki:Communitymessages-notice-msg.
 * 6) We do recommend administrators be careful not to add too much to the messages, as simpler messages are often easier to understand.

Next pages

 * Learn about notifications.
 * Learn about wiki activity.
 * Learn how to edit your toolbar.