Last modified: 2007-07-24 09:10:15 UTC
mediawiki:sharedupload is supposed to contain a message with a link to commons on wikimedia wikis. it does not do so on at least the following wikipedias el fy ia id (has a non-default message but no link to commons) ms ro uk there are probablly others i haven't noticed as well it would seem sensible to replace the default message with a non-internationalised message about commons on all wikis where it hasn't been changed already (with a bot or database query) and let the individual wikis translate it in thier own time. imo an untranslated message attributing the images to commons is much better than no link to commons at all.
Language file contain a default: 'sharedupload' => 'This file is a shared upload and may be used by other projects.', I have ran rebuildMessages --update on all wikis some days ago, so all wikis should have that message now.
read the bug report it said an appropriate message, that one whilst an ok default for the distributed mediawiki certainly isn't appropriate for mediawiki sites. now the auto inclusion of page content from commons mitigates this to some extent but there is still afaict no way to get to the image history or the page history of the description unless the admins of the local wiki edit mediawiki:sharedupload
I see, but this is not a problem that could be solved by changing the message only, because the software does not give the Commons’ page description URL. A change in ImagePage.php is required, so I am creating a new, more general, bug report, and marking this bug as a duplicate of that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10677 ***
