Author: theevilipaddress

Description:
When you search for a page, and it doesn't exist, there's usually a link where you can create the page. If however, for some reason, you can't create the page, then nothing is shown, only the MediaWiki message [[MediaWiki:searchmenu-new-nocreate]] (empty by default :-(). I believe it should be given some default text so that sites notice that they can customize this part.

Furthermore, I believe that it would be good if the messages could be more informative, possibly by splitting them up. It's not always that clear why it isn't possible: Sometimes you're blocked (might not require a message), the page is protected or the title is invalid. It would be great if the software told me what's the problem about it. If it's protected, then it would probably be good to also add a protection log extract, as it's also widely done elsewhere in the software, and if invalid noting exactly which characters are not valid.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement