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\author{ Sam Wilson }

\date{ 2023 January 17 (Tuesday), 11:32PM }

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In two places yesterday I noticed MediaWiki wikis with slightly odd phrasing relating to their site names:

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\item under the login form a button that says "Join Join the Fediverse" (message \texttt{userlogin-joinproject}) which has a repeated word; and

\item in the sidebar of Vector-2022 a box with "On this Example Inc. the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title." (message \texttt{vector-language-redirect-to-top}) which makes the assumption that there are more wikis with this name (which is true for wiki-per-language setups such as Wikipedia).

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There are many other uses\footnote{\url{https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=%5C%7B%5C%7BSITENAME%5C%7D%5C%7D&i=nope&files=en.json&excludeFiles=&repos=}} of the site name in messages, and of course any wiki with a site name that makes these messages sound funny should probably be overriding the messages locally (as we did\footnote{\url{https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/MediaWiki:Userlogin-joinproject}} on the WMAU wiki where 'Join Wikimedia Australia' has a different meaning to 'Create an account').

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