Author: wiki.nihiltres

Description:
On enwiki we were noticing some issues with the footer, namely, that under Vector we get an awkward linebreak after the "Contact us" link. The problem comes from Vector not simply concatenating the footer messages and their li elements in one long ul, but instead having the "Privacy policy" and "About Wikipedia", etc. in a separate ul after the copyright boilerplate.

Currently this is because the list of elements to put in the footer seems to be hardcoded somewhere. When looking for a way to address the problem as visible in Vector, Prodego and I realized that it would probably require developer intervention, and we agreed that the best solution would probably be to allow the list of footer elements to be defined in its own message, e.g. [[MediaWiki:Footer]], with a "$1 $2 $3 foobar" setup or some such; I thought that the sidebar's setup (i.e. [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]) would be good to emulate in that regard.

This should be an uncontroversial change, and it'll replace a current hack (the "contact us" code present in enwiki's [[MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright]]) with a general solution that will accomodate future changes.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement