https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51019

--- Comment #16 from Andre Klapper <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> Andre:Please understand the situation here, dev team provided a wrong fix and
> we are not able to type malayalam in our wikis.

The community's request was to disable ULS completely by default.
As
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/FAQ#How_can_I_disable_Universal_Language_Selector
explains, 
"Only part of the functionality can be disabled. Input methods can be
completely disabled by clicking the keyboard icon and clicking Disable input
tools. Web fonts can only be disabled per language in the settings."
(This part of the FAQ was already linked in the similar bug 46306 comment 17.)

Hence there is no UI to enable or disable ULS completely and "by default".
Hence for completely disabling ULS (as requested in this bug report), removing
ULS was required in order to fulfil the request by the ml community. I assume
that the developers acted in good faith, fulfilling the requests of the
community.


If I get the last comments correctly, I assume that input methods for Malayalam
are wanted again. Input methods are available via ULS.
I don't know which conclusions the Malayalam community would like to draw out
of this, but you are free to discuss this on 
https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/വിക്കിപീഡിയ:പഞ്ചായത്ത്_(സാങ്കേതികം) first.

To me it is currently unclear what is now asked for in this reopened bug
report, as the community's request was fulfilled (though in a surprising way).

Somebody needs to clarify this and the community needs to speak with one voice
here (after finding agreement, for example on
വിക്കിപീഡിയ:പഞ്ചായത്ത്_(സാങ്കേതികം)), clearly keeping in mind the technical
constraints explained above.

Currently this bug report is not actionable.
I can imagine that both the ml community and any developers are highly
interested in avoiding more misunderstandings.


Some general information to potentially speed up the process of getting any
kind of server configuration changes deployed: If anybody would like to create
some software patch to change some server configuration again, please see
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial
The files to change for this request are
https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fmediawiki-config.git/HEAD/wmf-config%2FInitialiseSettings.php
and linked to from comment 3. Please note that providing help with Git/Gerrit
is out of scope for this specific bug report.

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