On 3 December 2014 at 05:08, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a vague recollection that when I started editing the English > Wikipedia ten years ago, there was a notice near the Save button, which > said something like this: "Your changes will be edited mercilessly". > > I remember similar notices in other languages as well, though even more > vaguely. > > I don't see it now. I checked English, Hebrew and Russian. > > Does anybody know why was it removed? Did the editors communities just > decide independently to remove it for whatever reason? If it was, I'd love > to see links to discussions if anybody has them. Or was it a design > decision by the Foundation? > The messages in question are <copyrightwarning <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/master/languages/i18n/en.json;2e2958d6d9107fcc479183eaf2dc86247f87072e$650>> and <copyrightwarning2 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/master/languages/i18n/en.json;2e2958d6d9107fcc479183eaf2dc86247f87072e$651>> in MediaWiki core, which still use this term. However, as Nemo says, Wikimedia cluster wikis use a different message provided by the WikimediaMessages extension that doesn't currently include the term. I imagine it fell foul of the work to make the language simple and easy to understand when those were written. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
