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Add cookie notice to footer
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Steps to reproduce

  • when there go to bottom where footer is with the links.

Note: wikimedia have updated the wikimedia extension to include cookie links so when visiting you may see or may not see the cookie link.

Actual results

  • there is no cookie link on footer in mediawiki.

Expecred results

  • the cookie link should be added to footer in mediawiki.

This is a task for all websites using mediawiki not the ones on wikimedia since there is a task for those ones.

In the eu it is the law to have a notice about cookies and that I think users not showing it in the eu could be breaking the law.

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Paladox created this task.Feb 2 2016, 10:56 AM
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Aklapper added a comment.Feb 2 2016, 12:11 PM

Please provide steps to reproduce that are steps to reproduce ("has it set since it is set" is not a step) and please provide specific references for random statements made (like "eu law").

Paladox updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 2 2016, 12:53 PM
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Aklapper triaged this task as Lowest priority.Feb 4 2016, 10:40 AM

This has been implemented for Wikimedia sites in T124366.
If you want this in your MediaWiki installation and if you are based in the EU, you can edit your footer via https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Footer

Paladox added a comment.Feb 4 2016, 10:51 AM

Yes but I think it should be set as the default.

Legoktm subscribed.Feb 4 2016, 10:58 AM

I think it would be a good idea to a) have a documentation page on mediawiki.org that gives a basic overview of how MediaWiki core uses cookies, and b) a trivial "CookieFooter" extension that adds a link to the mw.o doc page and has localization set up, etc. I don't remember if that would actually meet the EU requirements though...

Aklapper added a comment.Feb 4 2016, 5:42 PM
In T125499#1997275, @Paladox wrote:

Yes but I think it should be set as the default.

And I do not think so. :) And I think that caring about the laws of every single country on this planet won't scale.

Aklapper edited projects, added: MediaWiki-extension-requests, MediaWiki-Documentation; removed: MediaWiki-General.Feb 4 2016, 5:43 PM
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Harej moved this task from Incoming to Does This Need To Be an Extension? on the MediaWiki-extension-requests board.Jan 29 2018, 9:48 PM
• srodlund moved this task from Backlog to Completed, Blocked, Wrong Category, Refinement Needed, or Older Needs Review on the Documentation board.Aug 17 2018, 10:42 PM
Pppery closed this task as Resolved.EditedAug 1 2024, 10:49 PM
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https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CookieWarning has existed for ages.

This task is an amalgamation of two distinct ideas. One, of writing code to do this, is already done. The other, of setting it to be the default behavior on all MediaWiki wikis, I agree with Aklapper should not be done. Since the only active codebase project tag on this task is MediaWiki-extension-requests and an extension exists, that makes the task resolved.

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