I believe this is deliberate and set somewhere in our config, although if I recall correct that might have been just meta, but yes I agree it needs phasing out and replacing with a proper description for everyone.

I think this would just need an edit to the CentralNotice, which is where the banner comes from.

In T6840#134765, @RhinosF1 wrote:

I believe this is deliberate and set somewhere in our config, although if I recall correct that might have been just meta, but yes I agree it needs phasing out and replacing with a proper description for everyone.

Does the site notice extension that is used for displaying site notices globally support images? And the config is irrelevant and specific to Meta which adds a description using the meta tag regarding Miraheze, not the fundraising campaigns.

It's CentralNotice but I'd assume no because that would break translations.

In T6840#134949, @RhinosF1 wrote:

It's CentralNotice but I'd assume no because that would break translations.

I think we could add a new setting to ManageWiki that would allow wiki bureaucrats to do what we currently do for Meta, add something like <meta name="description" content="Description defined through ManageWiki" />. This should fix this particular issue and reduce the anxiety of bureaucrats who care much about SEO. But I am not an expert on SEO and could be wrong.

In T6840#134950, @R4356th wrote:

In T6840#134949, @RhinosF1 wrote:

It's CentralNotice but I'd assume no because that would break translations.

I think we could add a new setting to ManageWiki that would allow wiki bureaucrats to do what we currently do for Meta, add something like <meta name="description" content="Description defined through ManageWiki" />. This should fix this particular issue and reduce the anxiety of bureaucrats who care much about SEO. But I am not an expert on SEO and could be wrong.

It should be fairly easy to make configurable.

Fixed:

<div class="cnotice" id="{{{banner}}}">
    <div id="cnotice-main">
        <div class="cnotice-logo-container">
            <img src="//static.miraheze.org/metawiki/3/35/Miraheze_Logo.svg" alt="Banner logo">
        </div>
        <div class="cnotice-message-container">
            <div class="cnotice-message">
                <p><span data-nosnippet>{{{msg-1}}} <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miraheze-stay-online-in-2021">{{{msg-2}}}, <a href="https://paypal.me/mirahezelimited">{{{msg-3}}} or <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/miraheze">{{{msg-4}}}</a>!</span></p>
            </div>
            <a href="https://meta.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-{{{banner}}}" title="{{{translate}}}">
                <span data-nosnippet>{{{translate}}}</span>
            </a>
            <center><h4><small><span data-nosnippet>{{{msg-5}}}</span></small></h4></center>
        </div>
    <div id="cnotice-toggle-box">
        <a href="#" title="Hide" onclick="mw.centralNotice.hideBanner();return false;"><img border="0" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/donate/a/ac/Close_oojs.png" alt="Hide" /></a>
    </div>
</div>