User blog comment:Sarah Manley/You've Been Chosen to Beta Test the New Wikia Editor/@comment-3388044-20110623065538

PROBLEMS WITH SYSTEM MESSAGES IN SOURCE MODE

I can get used to system messages (e.g., protection notices, warnings, etc.) not appearing fully at the top of the page the way they have before. I think it’s kind of neat the way, for most system messages, a little yellow one-line warning appears at the top and, if one clicks on it, the full system message from the MediaWiki namespace appears in a popup. But here's the problem:  Nutshell : When necessary, the editor needs to deploy a scrollbar in the system messages popups (from the MediaWiki namespace), just like the when-necessary scrollbars it deploys with Preview and Show changes. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  06:55, June 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * When a system message exceeds the vertical (i.e., top-to-bottom) dimension of the popup box, there is no scroll bar in the popup the way there is in the Preview and the Show changes popup boxes.
 * On our wiki, we have created an intricate system to permit members to request edits to semi- and fully-protected pages. For example, when a member without the necessary permissions clicks View source on a fully-protected page, the message that appears — after one clicks on the new yellow notice, of course — is MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext. (It is also the same MediaWiki page that is accessed by semi-protected pages. However, a series of if-then-style statements causes the page to display the message appropriate to the protection level.) At the bottom, after the explanation and instructions, is a link labelled Submit an edit request. Without scrollbars, this is not visible to all such users, unless they are in kiosk mode (F11 in Internet Explorer) with the zoom not set too high.