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A system message is a snippet of plain text (nowiki), wikitext, CSS, or JavaScript that can be used to customize the behavior of MediaWiki and its appearance for each language and locale. MediaWiki uses messages for any user-facing part of the interface, allowing for internationalization and localization of the MediaWiki UI, for both core and extensions. System messages are pages in the MediaWiki namespace, editable bu users in the <code>interface-admin</code> group.

;[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
:Defines site-wide CSS rules.
;[[MediaWiki:Group-user.css]]
:Defines CSS rules that only apply for logged-in users.
;[[MediaWiki:Common.js]]
:Defines site-wide Javascript code.
;[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
:Defines the main wiki menu.

There are {{SITENAME}} specific messages:
;[[MediaWiki:Shelter-sitename]]
:Sets the global wiki heading text to the site name.
;[[MediaWiki:Shelter-tagline]]
:Defines the global wiki tagline, shown below the site name.
;[[MediaWiki:Shelter-right-sidebar]]
:Defines the content of the global toolbar panel that slides in from the right.
;[[MediaWiki:Social-menu]]
:Defines the content of the global social icons block at the top.
;[[MediaWiki:Shelter-statistics]]
;[[MediaWiki:Shelter-upcoming-events]]
:Both define the content of the Main Page widgets.
;[[MediaWiki:Bottom-notice-Main Page]]
:Defines the content of the right column on the Main Page.

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