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MediaWiki: Replace $wgPasswordSenderName with a system message defaulting to "{{SITENAME}}" to clarify and allow translation

completed by: Theo Patt

mentors: Quim Gil, Bartosz Dziewoński, Kunal Mehta

MediaWiki core has this little problem that you could fix:

Receving a notification mail from the English Wikipedia. The from fields is
somewhat confusing:

From: MediaWiki Mail <wiki@wikimedia.org>

Should be changed to something like "Wiki[mp]edia notification system"
or something in that direction. The current from field adds to the
Mediawiki/Wikimedia/Wikipedia confusion.
Please replace $wgPasswordSenderName with a system message defaulting to "{{SITENAME}}" to clarify and allow translation.
See
Bug 32770 - Replace $wgPasswordSenderName with a system message defaulting to "{{SITENAME}}" to clarify and allow translation

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