https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41555

Chad H. <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Chad H. <[email protected]> 2012-11-05 19:33:27 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #12)
> > (In reply to comment #11)
> > > Keep it as Special:Version No good rationale for the renaming, but there 
> > > are
> > > several reasons for not doing it.
> > 
> > This comment is useless without details. There are various comments here, on
> > other bugs and on the mailing list that provide rationale for renaming, 
> > denying
> > that with no details is just foolish.
> 
> None of the rationales here well explain why this would be a needed change,
> though the wording is a little silly, nor is the practical significance
> addressed of either leaving it the same or changing it. What would be the
> justification for the inconsistency introduced between what sysadmins expect
> and encounter, especially if none of the alternatives suggested are without
> pitfalls of their own?
> 
> What details are there to give? Call the thing what you will, Special:Version,
> Special:About, Special:SoftwareInfo, Special:Platform, what have you; it is 
> the
> why it needs changing that is not compelling.
> 
> I don't think that's foolish.

I concur with everything said here. There's been no compelling reason given to
merit the change--and just a bunch of bikeshedding over names. I'd highly
suggest WONTFIXing this.

(In reply to comment #15)
> Indeed, this debate might be a bit absurd. Perhaps it would be more useful to
> come up with an explanation to add to the empty [[MediaWiki:Version-summary]]
> shown on top of the page? The absence of any explanation for such a complex
> page might be a worse offender.

This is not a bad idea at all.

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