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[Minerva] Remove "disclaimer" and "About" links from side menu, move links to footer list
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Description

Background

Currently the "Disclaimers" and "About Wikipedia" links are at the bottom of the side menu on mobile. We want them to be consistent with desktop (at the bottom with other footer links).

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User story

As a visitor to wikipedia on mobile browser, I will see the Disclaimers and About Wikipedia links at the bottom of the page, along with other footers, following the same order as desktop.


Requirements

Acceptance criteria

  • On Minerva, opening the main menu (side bar), we no longer see "About Wikipedia" and "Disclaimers" link
  • Scrolling to bottom of the page, "About Wikipedia" and "Disclaimers" are visible in the footer, along with the other footer links
  • Tapping on "About Wikipedia" and "Disclaimers" takes you to the corresponding pages.

Notes for developer

  • Remove selectors for #footer-places-about and #footer-places-disclaimers in resources/skins.minerva.styles/footer.less
  • Remove the menu from the includes/Skins/menu.mustache template
  • Remove IMainMenuBuilder::getSiteLinks, callers and implementors and associated code

BDD

  • For QA engineer to fill out.

Test Steps

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Rollback plan

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Event Timeline

HFan-WMF set the point value for this task to 2.Jan 10 2026, 2:18 AM

You could use some sort of rearrangement of the links too. The Privacy Policy appears twice in the desktop footer. On the other hand, the Cookie statement, which is directly related to privacy, is at the very end of the footer instead of being next to the Privacy Policy. In what's otherwise legal information, there's the "About [project]" link, which is not related to legal issues.

The footer at Phabricator says

By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Code of Conduct.

but the Code of Conduct disappears on Wikipedia, Wikidata or Wikimedia Commons

Change #1229202 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sanskardubey; author: Sanskardubey):

[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Remove disclaimer and about links from side menu, show in footer

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1229202