Updates to "About code scanning with CodeQL" and fix a few remaining …

…instances of `{% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}` (#52319)

content/code-security/code-scanning/introduction-to-code-scanning/about-code-scanning-with-codeql.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ There are three main ways to use {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} an
 * Use default setup to quickly configure {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} analysis for {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} on your repository. Default setup automatically chooses the languages to analyze, query suite to run, and events that trigger scans. If you prefer, you can manually select the query suite to run{% ifversion code-scanning-without-workflow-310 %} and languages to analyze{% endif %}. After you enable {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %}, {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} will execute workflow runs to scan your code. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/code-scanning/enabling-code-scanning/configuring-default-setup-for-code-scanning)."
 * Use advanced setup to add the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} workflow to your repository. This generates a customizable workflow file which uses the [github/codeql-action](https://github.com/github/codeql-action/) to run the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %}. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/code-scanning/creating-an-advanced-setup-for-code-scanning/configuring-advanced-setup-for-code-scanning#configuring-advanced-setup-for-code-scanning-with-codeql)."
 
-* Run the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} directly in an external CI system and upload the results to {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/code-scanning/integrating-with-code-scanning/using-code-scanning-with-your-existing-ci-system)."
+* Run the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} directly in an external CI system and upload the results to {% data variables.product.github %}. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/code-scanning/integrating-with-code-scanning/using-code-scanning-with-your-existing-ci-system)."
 
 {% ifversion ghes %}
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ For information about {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} alerts
 
 ## About {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %}
 
-{% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} treats code like data, allowing you to find potential vulnerabilities in your code with greater confidence than traditional static analyzers.
+{% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} is a programming language and associated tools that treat code like data. It was created explicitly to make it easier to analyze code and find potential vulnerabilities in your code with greater confidence than traditional static analyzers.
 
 1. You generate a {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} database to represent your codebase.
 1. Then you run {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries on that database to identify problems in the codebase.
@@ -50,9 +50,17 @@ For information about {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} alerts
 
 {% data reusables.code-scanning.codeql-languages-bullets %}
 
-## About {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries
+{% ifversion fpt or ghec or ghes > 3.10 %}
 
-{% data variables.product.company_short %} experts, security researchers, and community contributors write and maintain the default {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries used for {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %}. The queries are regularly updated to improve analysis and reduce any false positive results.{% ifversion ghes %} For details of the queries available in the default and extended packs, see "[Queries included in the default and security-extended query suites](/code-security/code-scanning/managing-your-code-scanning-configuration/codeql-query-suites#queries-included-in-the-default-and-security-extended-query-suites)."{% endif %}
+## Modeling custom or niche frameworks
+
+{% data variables.product.github %} experts, security researchers, and community contributors write libraries to model the flow of data in popular frameworks and libraries. If you use custom dependencies that aren't modeled, then you can use the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} extension for {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode %} to create models for these dependencies and use them to extend your analysis. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/codeql-for-vs-code/using-the-advanced-functionality-of-the-codeql-for-vs-code-extension/using-the-codeql-model-editor)."
+
+{% endif %}
+
+## {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries
+
+{% data variables.product.github %} experts, security researchers, and community contributors write and maintain the default {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries used for {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %}. The queries are regularly updated to improve analysis and reduce any false positive results.{% ifversion ghes %} For details of the queries available in the default and extended packs, see "[Queries included in the default and security-extended query suites](/code-security/code-scanning/managing-your-code-scanning-configuration/codeql-query-suites#queries-included-in-the-default-and-security-extended-query-suites)."{% endif %}
 
 ### Writing your own queries
 

content/code-security/codeql-cli/using-the-advanced-functionality-of-the-codeql-cli/advanced-setup-of-the-codeql-cli.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Advanced setup of the CodeQL CLI
-intro: 'You can modify your {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} setup to use a local checkout of the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} repository for analysis, set up multiple versions of the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %}, and analyze databases you have downloaded from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}.'
+intro: 'You can modify your {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} setup to use a local checkout of the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} repository for analysis, set up multiple versions of the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %}, and analyze databases you have downloaded from {% data variables.product.github %}.'
 product: '{% data reusables.gated-features.codeql %}'
 versions:
   fpt: '*'
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/codeql-cli/using-the-advanced-functionality-of-t
 
 **Note:** There are different versions of the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries available for different users. Check out the correct version for your use case:
 
-* For the queries that are intended to be used with the latest {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} release, check out the branch tagged `codeql-cli/latest`. You should use this branch for databases you’ve built using the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} or recently downloaded from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}.
+* For the queries that are intended to be used with the latest {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} release, check out the branch tagged `codeql-cli/latest`. You should use this branch for databases you’ve built using the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} or recently downloaded from {% data variables.product.github %}.
 * For the most up to date {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries, check out the `main` branch. This branch represents the very latest version of {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %}’s analysis.
 
 {% endnote %}
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ If you want to use the latest {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} featu
 
 ## Downloading databases from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}
 
-{% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} stores {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} databases for over 200,000 repositories on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}, which you can download using the REST API. The list of repositories is constantly growing and evolving to make sure that it includes the most interesting codebases for security research.
+{% data variables.product.github %} stores {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} databases for over 200,000 repositories on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}, which you can download using the REST API. The list of repositories is constantly growing and evolving to make sure that it includes the most interesting codebases for security research.
 
 You can also analyze databases from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %} using the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} for {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode_shortname %} extension. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/codeql-for-vs-code/getting-started-with-codeql-for-vs-code/running-codeql-queries)."
 

content/code-security/codeql-cli/using-the-advanced-functionality-of-the-codeql-cli/testing-custom-queries.md

@@ -231,5 +231,5 @@ into {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} for {% data variables.product.
 
 ## Further reading
 
-* "[{% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries](https://codeql.github.com/docs/writing-codeql-queries/codeql-queries/#codeql-queries)"
+* [{% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} queries](https://codeql.github.com/docs/writing-codeql-queries/codeql-queries/#codeql-queries)
 * "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/codeql-for-vs-code/using-the-advanced-functionality-of-the-codeql-for-vs-code-extension/testing-codeql-queries-in-vs-code)."

content/code-security/codeql-for-vs-code/getting-started-with-codeql-for-vs-code/running-codeql-queries-at-scale-with-multi-repository-variant-analysis.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ With multi-repository variant analysis (MRVA), you can run {% data variables.pro
 
 When you run MRVA against a list of repositories, your query is run against each repository that has a {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} database available to analyze. {% data variables.product.company_short %} creates and stores the latest {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} database for the default branch of thousands of public repositories, including every repository that runs {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} using {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %}.
 
-You need to enable {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} using {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}, using either default setup or advanced setup, before adding your repository to a list for analysis. For information about enabling {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} using {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %}, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/code-scanning/automatically-scanning-your-code-for-vulnerabilities-and-errors/configuring-code-scanning-for-a-repository#configuring-code-scanning-automatically)."
+You need to enable {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} using {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} on {% data variables.product.github %}, using either default setup or advanced setup, before adding your repository to a list for analysis. For information about enabling {% data variables.product.prodname_code_scanning %} using {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %}, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/code-scanning/automatically-scanning-your-code-for-vulnerabilities-and-errors/configuring-code-scanning-for-a-repository#configuring-code-scanning-automatically)."
 
 ### How MRVA runs queries against  {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} databases on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}
 

content/code-security/codeql-for-vs-code/using-the-advanced-functionality-of-the-codeql-for-vs-code-extension/configuring-access-to-the-codeql-cli.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ allowTitleToDifferFromFilename: true
 
 ## Configuring access to the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %}
 
-If you already have the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} installed and added to your `PATH`, the extension will use that version. This might be the case if you create your own {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} databases instead of downloading them from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/codeql-cli/getting-started-with-the-codeql-cli/preparing-your-code-for-codeql-analysis)."
+If you already have the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} installed and added to your `PATH`, the extension will use that version. This might be the case if you create your own {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} databases instead of downloading them from {% data variables.product.github %}. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/code-security/codeql-cli/getting-started-with-the-codeql-cli/preparing-your-code-for-codeql-analysis)."
 
 Otherwise, the extension automatically manages access to the executable of the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} for you. This ensures that the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql_cli %} is compatible with the {% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %} extension. You can also check for updates with the **{% data variables.product.prodname_codeql %}: Check for CLI Updates** command from the {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode_command_palette_shortname %}.