On 3 December 2014 at 05:08, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@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.