Choral Public Domain Library

All the content on cpdl.org is licensed under the CPDL license unless stated otherwise. However, I happened to notice at the bottom of every page it says "Content is available under ." How do we get this updated so it says "Content is available under the CPDL license." with a link to the license page?

bobnotts wrote:How do we get this updated so it says "Content is available under the CPDL license." with a link to the license page?

This can be done by setting appropriate variables in the MediaWiki configuration file LocalSettings.php:
I've done it on the contributor wiki. New settings will propagate to the visitor wikis tomorrow.

Max

Hi Max, this can be accomplished more easily by changing the system message http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Copyright
When set, this message overrides the configurations inside LocalSettings.php

This method presents two advantages: any admin can change the system message, even those without access to the LocalSettings.php file; besides, it accepts translations (under sub-pages, as usual). I've changed the system message in order to display the text suggested by Rob.

Thanks, Carlos. By the way, working on LocalSettings.php I found that it was necessary to comment out a couple of settings:
otherwise the text associated to the copyright variable was repeated on the bottom-right of the page, nearby the "Powered by MediaWiki" icon. Very strange

Max

Hi again, Max!

That's strange indeed, even more so because I couldn't replicate your results. I experimented with various combinations of settings and skins but the copyright text was not duplicating for me. :/ (well, I shouldn't be sad, that's a good thing, right? lol)

Great stuff, thanks guys