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Bug 11912 - Change default MediaWiki text for Wikimedia projects
Change default MediaWiki text for Wikimedia projects
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2007-11-09 18:06 UTC by Cary Bass
Modified: 2007-11-10 15:19 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Cary Bass 2007-11-09 18:06:46 UTC
Change default text in Wikimedia projects for MediaWiki:Sitesupport to read "Donate".
Change default text in Wikimedia projects for MediaWiki:Sitesupport-url to read "Wikimedia:Donate"
Comment 1 Robert Leverington 2007-11-09 18:08:39 UTC
MediaWiki isn't used by just Wikimedia, there are many other wikis where this change would be inappropriate.
Comment 2 JeLuF 2007-11-09 22:13:25 UTC
No. This makes no sense. There is no Wikimedia: namespace on most Wikimedia projects. Most Wikimedia projects don't use the English language. => WONTFIX.

There is no reference to any community discussion => WONTFIX.
Comment 3 Casey Brown 2007-11-10 04:04:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> No. This makes no sense. There is no Wikimedia: namespace on most Wikimedia

I believe that the "wikimedia:" was used as the interwiki prefix for the Wikimedia Foundation official site.  If you believe it needs to be a full URL, http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate would probably work. (I assume.)

> projects. Most Wikimedia projects don't use the English language. => WONTFIX.

As you can see from Cary's initial statement, he said the "default text", as in for non-English projects that do not have local sysops or a local translation yet.

> There is no reference to any community discussion => WONTFIX.

Cary Bass is an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, the Volunteer Coordinator, (as illustrated by his @wikimedia.org e-mail address) and I believe he was requesting this to assist in the Fundation's annual fundraiser.  I do not think he needs a community discussion for this (I may be wrong, though).
Comment 4 Cary Bass 2007-11-10 14:31:52 UTC
Re: Wikimedia:Donate... then change it to the direct URL <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate>.  This can be done.  Please do it.
Comment 5 Cary Bass 2007-11-10 14:33:25 UTC
That would be MediaWiki:sitesupport-url.  
Comment 6 Tim Starling 2007-11-10 15:19:18 UTC
Done. The messages are now registered as extension messages, configured with wgSiteDefaultMessages in InitialiseSettings.php.

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