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Default subtitle is "The Free Encyclopedia"
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Author: brian

Description:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Cite?page=MediaWiki

"Bibliographic details for MediaWiki
...
Publisher: MediaWiki, The Free Encyclopedia.
..."

Huh? MediaWiki isn't an encyclopedia!


Version: unspecified
Severity: minor

Details

Reference
bz4190

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:59 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz4190.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

en.ABCD wrote:

The text just needs to be changed in a MediaWiki: namespace page (I forgot which
one)

brian wrote:

Is this connected to any other bugs? How did the text get onto mediawiki.org in the first
place?

avarab wrote:

This is just a case of MediaWiki:sitesubtitle needing to be changed, the tool
has been de-installed on that wiki now. Feel free to file a new bug on the issue
that sitesubtitle doesn't make sense in the default distribution if there isn't
one already.

Resolving as INVALID since it's something that can be changed through the
MediaWiki namespace.

brian wrote:

"Wikimedia web sites: Configuration and other issues specific to Wikipedia, Wiktionary,
Commons, and other Wikimedia projects, this includes issues with MediaZilla (this bugtracker)."
(http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi)

This bug is an issue specific to a Wikimedia project (www.mediawiki.org) and is therefore valid
when filed under the product "Wikimedia web sites".

brian wrote:

If it's just a case of changing MediaWiki:Sitesubtitle, why uninstall the tool?

brian wrote:

"Feel free to file a new bug on the issue that sitesubtitle doesn't make sense in the default
distribution if there isn't one already."

I don't understand.

avarab wrote:

(In reply to comment #5)

If it's just a case of changing MediaWiki:Sitesubtitle, why uninstall the tool?

Because it isn't appropriate at mediawiki.org IMO regardless of what
sitesubtitle says.

brian wrote:

Why isn't it appropriate at mediawiki.org?

avarab wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)

"Wikimedia web sites: Configuration and other issues specific to Wikipedia,

Wiktionary,

Commons, and other Wikimedia projects, this includes issues with MediaZilla

(this bugtracker)."

(http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi)

This bug is an issue specific to a Wikimedia project (www.mediawiki.org) and

is therefore valid

when filed under the product "Wikimedia web sites".

It is not, it happened because the sitesubtitle message in the default MediaWiki
distribution is specific to Wikipedia, but shouldn't be.

brian wrote:

(In reply to comment #6)

"Feel free to file a new bug on the issue that sitesubtitle doesn't make sense in the default

distribution if there isn't one already."

I don't understand.

That comment means to file a bug stating that the default subtitle doesn't make sense, if there
isn't already such a bug (that comment is confusing).

brian wrote:

(In reply to comment #8)

Why isn't it appropriate at mediawiki.org?

See bug 4191.

robchur wrote:

An administrator on MediaWiki.org simply needs to change the aforementioned
MediaWiki namespace page, if that hasn't been done. It's not something that
requires developer intervention, and therefore, this bug report is invalid.

brian wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4192 ***