It's still on the WIkimedia UK wiki, but only visible when you are in the edit window (as below). I always thought it was really harsh and unwelcoming.
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On 3 December 2014 at 16:42, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
The "merciless" was used in the standardised messages decided by referendum in 2009: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update# Proposed_terms_of_use It got lost in the implementation in 2009: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation#Terms_for_edit_screen And then the message was removed without many ceremonies in 2012: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44491
That said, many wikis (and sometimes even the WMF) edit or replace the global messaging (wikimedia-copyrightwarning and formerly also wikimedia-editpage-tos-summary) in ways which don't comply with global consensus.
Nemo
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