https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41807
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Bug #: 41807
Summary: Support for pseudo-language "mul"
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.21-git
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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MediaWiki should support the language code "mul" to indicate multilingual
content. This could be used as the content language on multilingual wikis, to
avoid using a misleading "true" language code (as meta.wikimedia.org and
commons.wikimedia.org currently do: they pretend to be in english, while they
are not). This could also be used to indicate the language of truly
multilingual pages, like item pages on wikidata.org.
The Language object for "mul" could be derived from the Language object for
english - so it would inherit english messages, english date formatting, etc.
I.e. sites that start to use "mul" as their content language instead of "en"
would keep working exactly as before, except that they no longer lie about
their content language.
Support for "mul" would also come in handy for language fallback mechanism:
"mul" could act as the default fallback fro anything (instead of "en"). This is
especially interesting for the fallback mechanism in wikibase, which (unlike
mediawiki's i18n system) can not assume that english language messages exist.
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