Please don't try to explain my own country to me. Thank you.

I took all of the points into consideration when I wrote it should be
postponed for Persian.

Amir (he/him)


Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 11. März 2026, 13:59:

> There are many Persian users living abroad that may still want to support
> their language, even if the normal Internet accesses are closed in Iran
> (also in Afghanistan? where the "Dari" is a local variant of Persian, or in
> Pakistan where there's also a significant minority of Persian speakers, or
> in Irak within the Shiite community). In any event they should not be
> excluded to opt-out some features whenever the service come back, instead
> of discovering much later that some options have been opted in without
> allowing them to control what has happened.
> The current closure of Internet in Iran just means that we have time to
> support these translations and review them correctly even if the usage may
> be lower that expected during this transition period, and
> visitors/contributors of Persian wikis is low for now.
> But here this is in settings for a general Mediawiki extension which is
> highly integrated; and there are probably other non-Wikimedia wikis based
> on MediaWiki that may be using Parsoid, that would need local updates of
> the interface on these external wikis used in schools/universities,
> hospitals, local NGOs or international actors working in humanitary
> organizations (and employing local resources), and some local businesses.
> MediaWiki should remain open as much as possible, and independant of
> political situations (as much as permitted by locally applicable laws). The
> Persian language is not (and should not be) banned.
>
> Le mer. 4 mars 2026 à 10:35, Amir Sarabadani via Translators-l <
> [email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>> I‌ don't think we need to translate it to Persian. The internet in Iran
>> has been shut down for a while now. The views on the Wiki have nosedived.
>> Maybe after the war?
>>
>> Hoping for better days
>>
>> Am Mo., 2. März 2026 um 19:21 Uhr schrieb C. Scott Ananian via
>> Translators-l <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> We'd like to request your help translating our editor opt-out survey for
>>> the new Parsoid wikitext parser, especially into Arabic, Spanish, Thai,
>>> Russian, and Portuguese, which are the remaining wikis with the top-10-most
>>> Parsoid opt-outs which don't yet have survey translations.  Chinese,
>>> Persian, Japanese, and Indonesian don't have quite as many opt-outs, but
>>> we'd also appreciate translations into those languages as well.  These are
>>> the messages that begin `parsermigration-survey-` in the ParserMigration
>>> extension.
>>>
>>> Direct link:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&task=untranslated&group=ext-parsermigration-user&action=translate
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help!
>>>   -- C. Scott Ananian, for the Content Transform team
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Amir (he/him)
>>
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