Tim Starling wrote:
I made the message which it draws it from configurable, so that developers still have the ability to announce downtime. This is done with an initial colon in $wgSiteNotice, for example ":fundraising_notice". [...] If I thought it was a good idea to replace $wgSiteNotice with wfMsg('sitenotice'), I would have done so, instead of writing something more complicated and more flexible.
Wouldn't replacing $wgSiteNotice with wfMsg('sitenotice') still allow for this flexibility since, now that it is wiki-parsed, it can contain something like "{{fundraising_notice}}"?
Timwi