Forum:CC-BY-SA link appears to be gone from bottom of wikis



As you know, a link to “CC-BY-SA” is meant to appear down at the bottom of content pages on wikis, I believe between the links for “Privacy Policy” and “MediaWiki.” As far as I can tell, this is now gone. At first I thought it was just for one wiki, but it appears to be gone from every wiki. The screenshot of my computer, shown at the right, showcases the issue. You will notice that “CC-BY-SA” is not there. Any idea what’s going on here? - Brandon Rhea (talk) 04:50, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * There never was a CC-BY-SA link in the footer, however, Angela recently removed the GFDL link which is probably what you noticed missing. Grunny  ( Talk ) 05:09, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

There was absolutely a CC-BY-SA link in the footer. I've used it to get to the text of CC-BY-SA on more than one occasion. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 05:11, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Maybe it has something to do with the skin you use, I use monobook and at the left on the bottom of my page is a CC BY SA thingy that links to Licensing  Madclaw  (Talk) 11:22, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Yes, there was a CC-BY-SA link in the footer for quite a while now. Good thing is that a link to Licensing still appears in the edit window. Not sure why it has been removed from the footer, but I've passed it along to to the higher ups in case they were not aware, Brandon. It seems like licensing should be one of those links present in the footer, eh &mdash; from where I'm sitting, it looks like it may just be a mistake, but I could be wrong. Greyman  Talk 12:05, October 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * That's odd. I've just replaced it. I didn't think that message was in use anywhere since it said GFDL which was not showing up in the footer. I have no idea why removing a message that says "GFDL" makes "CC-BY-SA" disappear from the footer! Any guesses why that would happen? Angela (talk) 12:56, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Was there some kind of software change to make the GFDL links redirect to Wikia:Licensing and CC-BY-SA when the change over happened to make it easier than changing all the links? If so, that could be a reason why removing the GFDL link might remove the CC-BY-SA one. Grunny  ( Talk ) 13:06, October 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * I've now found out that there's some sort of bug with "GFDL" being hardcoded there when it really ought to show whatever $wgRights is set to for any particular wiki. Hopefully it'll be resolved, but until then, the message is back to how it was so the footer should be showing the correct license again. Thanks Brandon for noticing this. Angela (talk) 13:23, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Angela. When Grunny said there was never a link I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. =P - Brandon Rhea (talk) 16:11, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Also of note here, is double check what page you are on. most Special pages or anything else that does not have user editable content, does not display the rights in the footer either. So sometimes it not being there is normal --Uberfuzzy 17:24, October 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm aware. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 18:14, October 28, 2009 (UTC)