On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:30:35 -0600, Wes Mauer wmauer@gmail.com wrote:
I've looked around the site and through the archives, but I have not found how you can change the license message from within WikiMedia. What I am looking to do, is remove the GFDL text that appears in the bottom of my Wiki, and replace it with a notice indicating that the material (documents) is property of my employer. If anyone could point me to some documentation on how to do this, that would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
As with pretty much all aspects of the interface, you can change this by editing pages in the "MediaWiki namespace" - go to [[Special:Allmessages]] in your wiki for a complete list, and search for the text you want to change. In this case, the page to edit seems to be [[MediaWiki:Copyright]] (you have to be logged into an account with "sysop" status to edit MediaWiki: pages). See also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki_namespace
There are also some variables relating to copyright in LocalSettings.php / DefaultSettings.php, but if you can't work out how those should be used, I'm pretty sure editting the MediaWiki namespace will have the desired effect.
By the way, please try and avoid saying "Wikimedia" when you mean "MediaWiki", as these terms have very different meanings - the former is a non-profit organisation, the latter a piece of software. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Names for details. Note that this mailing list has "Wikimedia" in its description because it is mainly aimed at the people who maintain Wikimedia's servers; there is a separate "mediawiki-l" list for admins of unrelated wikis and their wider software issues.