A lot of editors are seeing this message when they save a page in VE, then try to reopen it to make another edit - see T52441.
It must be really disconcerting for a new editor who has just made their first edit, had a second thought, and sees this message.
I wonder whether, until this bug is fixed, this pink message box should be amended so that it says something like:
I ran this proposal past the Village Pump, and this is the next logical place for it - are there any objections to making this change?
When comparing old versions of an article via page history, it would be quite useful to be able to directly edit the current version of a page (e.g., in order to restore something which has been inadvertently removed from a page several edits ago). Yet if you click edit, you are presented with an edit box for the difference you are currently looking at (e.g., here), which does have its practical advantages. Surely it would be possible to add a link to this "old version" editbox which would take you to an editbox for the article as it currently is. All that would be needed would be to change to text in the pink box from:
to:
The additional text would go to the same target as pressing the EDIT tab at the top of the current page. It would be very easy to implement - a simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=((FULLPAGENAMEE))&action=edit edit the current version] would do the trick, and there may be simpler ways i haven't thought of. Grutness...wha? 22:43, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
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Please change the whole message to
<div id="editingold" class="plainlinks" style="text-align:center;">'''You are editing an old revision of this page. If you publish it, any changes made since then will be [[Help:Reverting|removed]]. You may wish to [((fullurl:((FULLPAGENAMEE))|action=edit)) edit the current revision] instead.'''</div>
Recently MediaWiki started to wrap this message in a yellowish-orangeish box (see e.g. by editing the previous version of this page), and the two colors look horrible together. Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:40, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
warningbox
coloring is bold enough - perhaps that could be adjusted instead/in addition? (deactivating edit request as there is discussion open on this now) — xaosflux Talk 14:23, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
.warningbox
can be recolored, but it causes all .warningbox
es (i.e. all, or almost all, similarly-colored warning boxes) to become pink. I think that’s even less ideal, so a software change is needed in order to make this box selectable (using CSS) on its own. I support this change, as I agree that the orange line is far less noticeable than the pink one. I don’t know, however, how to get started with it, given that Html::warningBox()
doesn’t support any additional attributes nor additional classes in its current version. (Once implemented, Common.css should be edited to change the colors of the message.) —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:58, 23 December 2018 (UTC)@Xaosflux: I'm reopening this, as I was about to submit the same request. I think this looks very weird. Similar changes have been already applied to other messages that received "default" wrapper boxes, e.g. [1]. Matma Rex talk 20:47, 28 November 2019 (UTC)