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Tim Starling wrote:
> On 22/11/06, brion(a)svn.wikimedia.org
<brion(a)svn.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> + * END USERS: DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY!
[snip]
End users other than Wikimedia, you mean?
Yes, the message is directed at the third-party users who run straight
to the PHP files to make customizations on their one-off site and then
ask "why doesn't my site change when I change this file???" without
checking the FAQ.
We still have no way to set
site-wide default messages apart from editing the messages file. The
messages files still have some Wikimedia-specific text, such as the donation
link and the wording of the copyright notices. No doubt there would be more
such Wikimedia references if we had a way to include them without having
them show up on 10,000 other sites.
I suspect we could have an extension-like interface for overriding the
generic default messages with some site-specific defaults. That
_probably_ would even work with the present extension interface.
If we're clever, we could also make something editable, probably, with
appropriate shared caching.
(Attention: clever people! Try your hand and become famous. :)
- -- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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