Dan Comstock wrote:
want to add a template above the edit page, sort of
like the blue box
here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=BUTTS&action=edit
Boilerplate text on pages like that is stored in the system messages.
If you click on Special pages, then System messages, it'll take you to
(in the case of
mediawiki.org):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AllMessages
Search that page for the text you're interested in (e.g. search for
"Attention visitors") and you'll see the source of the message. Click
on the name of the message in the left column ("newarticletext") and
copy what you want.
Open the same page on your wiki and paste the content.
Mike