On 3 December 2014 at 05:08, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)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.
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Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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