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#640 Message names are wikipedia-specific (e.g. fromwikipedia)

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2004-09-03
2004-03-24
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Trivial error, but important for widespread mediawiki adoption
mediawiki messages like those currently at fromwikipedia and
aboutwikipedia should have site-neutral names like "tagline" and
"about_site".

This is especially true for "fromwikipedia" as I hoped to use that
name for a custom message: ''This article was originally a
wikipedia article'', but it's true for both: editors of my site
shouldn't be confused about whether they're editing at wikipedia or
my site.

Discussion

  • Daniel Keshet

    Daniel Keshet - 2004-03-24
    • priority: 5 --> 2
     
  • Ashar Voultoiz

    Ashar Voultoiz - 2004-04-06
    • assigned_to: nobody --> hashar
     
  • Rowan Collins

    Rowan Collins - 2004-06-22

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    lt was pointed out on the mailing list
    (http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-June/000572.html)
    that everywhere we use the string "Wikipedia" we are
    reinforcing the incorrect idea that this is a generic term,
    rather than a trademark specific to wikipedia.org - possibly
    making this bug a little more important.

     
  • Tim Starling

    Tim Starling - 2004-08-07
    • summary: mediawiki-wide messages use wikipedia-specific names --> Message names are wikipedia-specific (e.g. fromwikipedia)
     
  • Timwi

    Timwi - 2004-09-03

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    This bug has been migrated to MediaZilla:
    http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320
    Please leave additional comments or attachments there.

     
  • Timwi

    Timwi - 2004-09-03
    • milestone: 285194 --> Moved_to_Bugzilla
    • status: open --> closed
     

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