Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:56:50 UTC
Currently MediaWiki:Disclaimers can be set to '-' to disable it. A small patch will be attached shortly that allows MediaWiki:aboutsite to be disabled in the same way.
Created attachment 976 [details] Allow aboutsite to be disabled, as per disclaimers
I don't think this will work quite right; it's checking based on the currently selected user-interface language. This means if you change MediaWiki:Aboutsite for the content language, but someone selects a different UI language in their preferences, they'll still see a link.
For me, that isn't a problem, because I'll be the only one that can log in to this wiki, and everyone else will be anons - so they're stuck with the default prefs (which will be English), take it or leave it. However, I understand that a language-neutral approach is what's needed for the general wiki case. Two thoughts: * Does this also imply that the current MediaWiki:Disclaimers code has the same problem? (code for that is right below the lines I changed, and is basically identical). * If so, could there be a more generic way of disabling or customizing it? Maybe something like MediaWiki:Sidebar, except for the bottom line rather than for the nav bar? Maybe called MediaWiki:Footer, and the example contents could be something like "aboutsite|aboutsite-url,Disclaimers|disclaimers-url". (I've used "," as the field delimiter because it's hard to know what else to use, as a '*' like in MediaWiki:Sidebar does not seem appropriate when it's a list going across the page rather than down it.)
In 1.6, note that the new "Privacy policy" link in the footer can also be disabled by setting "MediaWiki:Privacy" to "-". "MediaWiki:aboutsite" seems to be the only exception to this pattern for the footer.
Created attachment 3220 [details] Allow MediaWiki:aboutsite to be disabled, plus make disabling footer stuff work right when uselang=XX param is used Review requested please, in case this breaks something I haven't considered.
Checked-in as r19959, marking as fixed.
