https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/T2078Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:32:22 +0000<p>In two places yesterday I noticed MediaWiki wikis with slightly odd phrasing relating to their site names:</p> <ul> <li>under the login form a button that says “Join Join the Fediverse” (message <code>userlogin-joinproject</code>) which has a repeated word; and</li> <li>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 <code>vector-language-redirect-to-top</code>) which makes the assumption that there are more wikis with this name (which is true for wiki-per-language setups such as Wikipedia).</li> </ul> <p>There are <a href="https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=%5C%7B%5C%7BSITENAME%5C%7D%5C%7D&i=nope&files=en.json&excludeFiles=&repos=">many other uses</a> 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 <a href="https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/MediaWiki:Userlogin-joinproject">we did</a> on the WMAU wiki where ‘Join Wikimedia Australia’ has a different meaning to ‘Create an account’).</p>https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/P26560https://twyne.samwilson.id.au/P26560Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:32:21 +0000