Last modified: 2013-03-28 22:31:42 UTC
As suggested by mav on the mailing list, please add a [[MediaWiki:Footermessage]] page so wikis can add links to things like [[Privacy policy]] – [[Contact us]] – [[Terms of use]] at the end of every page. It should come beneath the "About Wikipedia - Disclaimers" part of the page. If possible, please allow it to be made uneditable in LocalSettings. Not everyone hosting a wiki wants their users to be able to remove these links. (I do realise that makes translations harder).
Well, it's been a while, but fixed in r42799
Reverted in r42802; we tend to avoid wiki parsing in skin code and things that get run on every page view; eg heavily caching sitenotices and such.
*** Bug 5190 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Somewhat fixed nowadays, people just edit the message wikimedia-copyright or others; they are now: (lastmodifiedat) (wikimedia-copyright) (privacy) (aboutsite) (disclaimers) (mobile-frontend-view)
Combining multiple footer links together in a situation where each one is output into an <li> isn't an acceptable solution. Letting the links in the footer be freely defined was a good of the footerlinks code introduced. It just hasn't been given a way to work with the web interface because there is a lot of legacy code weighing it down.
The links requested in comment 0 are available anyway and wikimedia-copyright is not a link but a full message. If you feel that message is wrong please open a bug against it, if you think another message is needed please provide a use case.
Nemo, please stop marking this bug as fixed. This is not a Wikimedia site request. It's a bug filed in the mediawiki project with a request that hasn't been finished yet. Whether or not some extra links have been added to Wikipedia is irrelevant. The bug's request was for a message to let any number of custom links to be added.
*** Bug 22334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
