The Discovery team has also investigated updating the footer and there are two tickets for possibly taking on this work to update the template (work to do https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142540 and community involvement https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142541).

To date, we haven't done much work or investigation on either ticket.

Cheers,

Deb

-- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery IRC: debt Wikimedia Foundation

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:

The footers are controlled at 3 different levels:

• The interface messages built into MediaWiki
• Hook handlers that override those interface messages with other interface

messages specifically for Wikimedia projects in the WikimediaMessages extension

• Local message overrides controlled by local wiki admins

There are also two different sets of footers (and corresponding interface messages), one set for desktop and another set for mobile.

So the answer to your question is "a lot of different people". On the WMF side, I would say that probably no one "owns" the footers, but I would nominate the Reading team to address any issues (since they are most familiar with the mobile components). On the community side, you can check the histories of the following interface messages on a particular wiki:

• wikimedia-copyright
• privacy
• aboutsite
• disclaimers
• contact
• wikimedia-developers
• wikimedia-cookiestatement
• mobile-frontend-view

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Zhou Zhou zzhou@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Hi,

Would anyone know who maintains the footers on our projects below linking to our policies and terms? The second footer especially appears it might

be

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automatically set somewhere.

• Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike

License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_ Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use and

Privacy

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Policy https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. https://www.wikimediafoundation.org/, a non-profit organization.

• Privacy policy <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy

• About Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

• Disclaimers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer

• Contact Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/

wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us

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• Developers

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_contribute

• Cookie statement

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Cookie_statement

• Mobile view

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page& mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile

-- Thanks!

Zhou

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