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--- Comment #17 from Krinkle 2012-11-06 01:36:09 UTC ---
The rationale is that "Version" does not cover the load. It contains:
* Copyright
* Credits
* Authors
* Descriptions
* List of hooks and callbacks
* Entry point configuration
* MediaWiki
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--- Comment #15 from Nemo_bis 2012-11-02 07:53:22 UTC
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Indeed, this debate might be a bit absurd. Perhaps it would be more useful to
come up with an explanation to add to the empty [[MediaWiki:Version-summary]]
shown on top of the page? The
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--- Comment #14 from Isarra 2012-11-02 07:11:00 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > Keep it as Special:Version No good rationale for the renaming, but there are
> > several reasons for not doing it.
>
> This comme
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--- Comment #13 from Bartosz Dziewoński 2012-11-01
12:16:35 UTC ---
> What about Special:SofwareInfo.
Doesn't sound bad, but this is going to be really long in some locales. In
Polish, this would translate as "Specjalna:Informacje o oprogramo
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--- Comment #12 from Krinkle 2012-10-30 21:13:21 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > Many of the special pages already contain purely technical - or even
> > internal -
> > data not rea
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--- Comment #10 from Daniel Friesen
2012-10-30 16:38:03 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > > "About" seems to generic, I'd expect it to be more
> > > about the site itself than the software.
> >
> > +1
>
> > So w
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--- Comment #9 from Nemo_bis 2012-10-30 16:36:21 UTC
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(In reply to comment #4)
> Is there any special need for this?
Not really. Some people suddenly feel that we're accumulating too much stuff in
this page which is not associated to the w
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--- Comment #8 from Bartosz Dziewoński 2012-10-30
16:32:25 UTC ---
(I suppose I should have used "they" instead of "he" in the last sentence.)
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--- Comment #7 from Bartosz Dziewoński 2012-10-30
16:31:39 UTC ---
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> But whatever the case, suddenly renaming a widely used and accepted special
> page would be rather unwise without a demonstrated need, and even then
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--- Comment #6 from Bartosz Dziewoński 2012-10-30
16:29:09 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> > "About" seems to generic, I'd expect it to be more
> > about the site itself than the software.
>
> +1
> So what? We also have Project:About link
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--- Comment #5 from Daniel Friesen
2012-10-30 16:27:19 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Actually, I don't see anything really wrong with "Version".
>
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Can't find the comment I had before. But I'm leaning toward
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--- Comment #3 from Nemo_bis 2012-10-30 16:12:56 UTC
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Actually, I don't see anything really wrong with "Version".
(In reply to comment #1)
> Can't find the comment I had before. But I'm leaning towards Special:PoweredBy
> rather than Speci
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--- Comment #2 from Bartosz Dziewoński 2012-10-30
16:04:40 UTC ---
But even your browser probably has a help:about page. Almost every software
product has a Help -> About menu item. MediaWiki has no Help menu, so we have
to resort to special p
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--- Comment #1 from Daniel Friesen
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Can't find the comment I had before. But I'm leaning towards Special:PoweredBy
rather than Special:About. "About" seems to generic, I'd expect it to be more
about the site itself t
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