Following T333211, the special pages link will be moved from the toolbox to the main menu in all skins. This is because the toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site.
To minimize disruption, until MediaWiki 1.45, the "Special pages" link will be automatically appended to the "navigation" (default) section of the main menu if it is missing from the main menu.
| Skin | Previous location: | new location |
| Vector 2022 |  |  |
| Monobook |  |  |
(feel free to add screenshots for other skins)
Actions
Confirm new location
To avoid losing the link altogether in future:
- Communities that want to retain the new location and/or reposition it in the menu should update MediaWiki:Sidebar to include the following line: ** specialpages-url|specialpages
- Communities that do not want this behaviour should modify MediaWiki:Specialpages-url to have the text - until shortly after the 1.45 release.
Update scripts / styles
Site scripts/styles referencing t-specialpages should be updated to also reference n-specialpages
e.g.
#t-specialpages { color: red; }should be updated to:
#n-specialpages, #t-specialpages { color: red; }To find out if you are impacted please try this link:
https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=t-specialpages®ex=1&namespaces=2%2C8&title=