- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was delete. Salvio Let's talk about it! 02:10, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
No reason for this to exist on en.wp. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 05:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Comment-These seem to exist for a great number of language codes...being in the MediaWiki namespace, I'd recommend against deleting it until we get some developer (or other tech-savy person) input on exactly what they do.-- Fyre2387 ( talk • contribs) 22:35, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've made a note at the technical village pump asking for such input.-- Fyre2387 ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Looks very much like a bunch of variables, stored for collection by scripts, during the page upload process. There are also MediaWiki:Aboutsite and MediaWiki:Aboutsite/fr etc. etc.
- This sort of page exists as a hard storage of variable that the MediaWiki software uses to add custom terms and messages to pages in various places. They must not be deleted (I am very sure, but a second or third opinion is advised).
fredgandt
22:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- The message MediaWiki:Aboutsite/fr does not exist locally (notice there is no "history" tab); what you see is a default MediaWiki value from translatewiki:MediaWiki:Aboutsite/fr. Also see Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Aboutsite. — AlexSm 23:03, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- I've asked User:Anomie and User:Edokter to come and see. If anyone knows what's what, it's those two. fredgandt 22:59, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- Just like any other local message this one can be deleted if the default message
translatewiki:MediaWiki:Aboutsite/ko which is
{{SITENAME}} 소개is good enough. — AlexSm 23:03, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- When a user sets ko as his/her language at Special:Preferences (under "Internationalisation"), this page provides the text of the link to Wikipedia:About in the sidebar. Screenshot. Goodvac ( talk) 23:03, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- See mw:Manual:Interface/Aboutsite. These pages are part of the software (basically). fredgandt 23:06, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
- This message overrides the default, see the
original and replaced message here. It was initially created with a different title. I don't know why it was created, or why it was moved (see history). I do know it's pretty much useless here. Devs recommend that the default Aboutsite message use "About Wikipedia" instead of "About {{SITENAME}}" to limit transclusions on every page view, but that should only be done for the site's default language. So delete, preferably speedy under
G6. —
Edokter (
talk) —
00:35, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Seems to have been created based on
Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)/Archive 1#Make system messages, and moved because it was created at the wrong name.
Anomie
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01:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- So it was created 4 years ago for one language... and one user? —
Edokter (
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01:26, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Seems like it. Anomie ⚔ 02:13, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- So it was created 4 years ago for one language... and one user? —
Edokter (
talk) —
01:26, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Seems to have been created based on
Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)/Archive 1#Make system messages, and moved because it was created at the wrong name.
Anomie
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01:18, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Better to be safe than sorry!
fredgandt
01:16, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please stop panicing. Worst that could happen is that a user that has the Korean language set will see "Wikipedia 소개" instead of "위키피디아 소개". —
Edokter (
talk) —
01:26, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- I stopped panicking as soon as you and Anomie showed up (no offence to anyone else, I've just got to know these two a little). I thought this page was like those [+] pages we (you) were dealing with the other day, and had visions of a lot of things going horribly wrong if the page suddenly disappeared. Like I say, "better to be safe than sorry". fredgandt 01:50, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Please stop panicing. Worst that could happen is that a user that has the Korean language set will see "Wikipedia 소개" instead of "위키피디아 소개". —
Edokter (
talk) —
01:26, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Delete this is English Wikipedia. The message doesn't even tell you you're at the wrong Wikipedia, that this isn't ko.wiki ; if we don't have one for French, why should Korean exist? If Korean should exist, then we'll be creating a lot more soon, since there are more popular languages in the English world. 76.65.128.132 ( talk) 08:25, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Speedy G6. An obvious candidate. Enough said. — This, that, and the other (talk) 10:48, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Comment Note there are
46 other foreign-language messages in existence as of a day or two ago.
Anomie
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17:21, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
- Some really don't make sense; MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning/de (and nl) contains text in English. What's the point of that? I'd say cleanup time. — Edokter ( talk) — 17:49, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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