Change 742810 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Display license in the editor even when not shown in read mode (e.g. creating new pages)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/742810

As I mentioned in T111833#7536242 and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/742810 the license doesn't show is because we hide the license in the footer on pages that don't exist.

Rather than a MobileFrontend specific solution (which moving away from that was the whole point of T111833) I suggest we update the logic in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/12dbaa863859bd3874f47c2b8107e10c42bb7697/includes/skins/Skin.php#2504 to always show the license and use CSS to hide it (a page-redlink class on the body seems like a helpful thing to have)

Alternatively, we should output this configuration in core so things other than MobileFrontend can use it.

@matmarex this only impacts wikinews, right?

No, it also affects non-Wikimedia wikis.

In T296791#7541829, @matmarex wrote:

No, it also affects non-Wikimedia wikis.

This is not a bug then. The whole point of the changes in MobileFrontend was to defer to editors for this change.

I've fixed Wikinews with this edit:
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend-license-links

Perhaps all that is needed here, is updating documentation/release notes around the new way to set licenses for the mobile editor.

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Change 742810 abandoned by Bartosz Dziewoński:

[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Display license in the editor even when not shown in read mode (e.g. creating new pages)

Reason:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/742810

Change 743034 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Fix Wikinews license link in mobile editor

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/743034

https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend-license-links&diff=4651861&oldid=4651850&diffmode=source

Change 743034 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Fix Wikinews license link in mobile editor

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/743034