bastique.bz wrote:

This would be a very helpful (badly needed) interface update.

robchur wrote:

What for? The message is used as a label for the licencing drop-down box, as far
as I can see. If it's being used elsewhere, then it should probably be split so
we can safely treat the other message.

brianna.laugher wrote:

(In reply to comment #2)

What for? The message is used as a label for the licencing drop-down box, as far
as I can see. If it's being used elsewhere, then it should probably be split so
we can safely treat the other message.

It's not being used elsewhere, but we accept other licenses besides the ones in
the drop-down list (like, dozens more, so it is not reasonable to list them
all). See for yourself at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload , I
added the link I wanted to add to this message, to MediaWiki:Fileuploadsummary
as a partial solution.

And I don't really understand why there's no consistency with these messages.
It's unexpected.

robchur wrote:

(sigh)

So a message supporting wiki text is needed above the licencing selector for
explanatory purposes?

brianna.laugher wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)

(sigh)

So a message supporting wiki text is needed above the licencing selector for
explanatory purposes?

As you can see from my edit to the URL linked above, all I wanted to change the
text to is "[[Commons:Copyright tags|Licensing]]". It doesn't need any more
space. But if you want to add another message supporting wiki text above the
licensing selector then fine, I will edit that, when it exists.

Is there a problem with me seeking to customise the interface?

ayg wrote:

The issue with wikitext is that it takes time to parse. We don't want to make every message
wikitext for efficiency reasons. Honestly it would probably be easier if we just allowed raw
HTML in the messages and did away with wikitext for them altogether, but I suppose that would be
unfriendly to non-technical admins.

brianna.laugher wrote:

Well, one problem is that at the moment the choice or whether or not a message
takes wikitext seems totally arbitrary. Why MediaWiki:Fileuploadsummary but not
this one? Or why dozens of other warning messages but not MediaWiki:Badfiletype?
I don't think there's any kind of record about which messages have been chosen
to support wikitext and which don't, is there? (Actually some type of mark like
this might be useful on special:allmessages.)

If you choose to close this bug WONTFIX then fine, I will live with editing
MediaWiki:Fileuploadsummary as I have done. But please fix
MediaWiki:Badfiletype, I know from months of experience that lack of wikitext
(and also two distinct errors covered by this one message) causes big user
confusion when they are confronted with this error.

ayg wrote:

See also bug 8893.

robchur wrote:

Fixed in r23116.