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In two places yesterday I noticed MediaWiki wikis with slightly odd phrasing relating to their site names:
- under the login form a button that says "Join Join the Fediverse" (message
userlogin-joinproject) which has a repeated word; and - 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
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).
There are many other uses 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 on the WMAU wiki where 'Join Wikimedia Australia' has a different meaning to 'Create an account').
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