On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Andrew Garrett <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Newarticletext
>
> Do we seriously need such an obnoxious message here?
>
> I realise that we might have had a problem in the past with people
> clicking on the MediaWiki logo in the corner when installing their
> wikis, but perhaps we could solve this problem by delinking it,
> instead of an English Wikipedia style giant stop sign at the top of
> the page. It really hurts my eyes.

+100

Came across this today doing a live demo / conference discussion about  
mediawiki and wikipedia, and was appalled at the hideous stop sign and  
bright red warning text. :(

We don't need to go so crazy with templates, large warnings, etc.  
especially on mediawiki.org  Please let's get rid of it.

aude

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