https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19986
--- Comment #18 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> --- names of dumps are very minor issues, this is technical and does not affect lots of existing contents in the database itself. As they are just local filenames, hosted on Linux servers, just some basic symbolic links will solve this minor aspect on these servers. There are also very few users of these dumps that need them via automated tools. These tools are changed easily, their users have enough technical skills and involvement on the projects to know that they should use another name after some reasonnably small delay (they will be alerted of the change by the technical news on Meta, that they should read regularly or should have subscribed for their email or Wiki account). Occasional users of dumps that just select them in a list will not be affected. For the very few codes that are used illegitimately, like "nrm" for Norman, the other language coded with "nrm" is still for a minority language, for which we have never seen any demand, so we have ample time to do it immediately, and keep the old alias for long, until the time when it will start being needed and used. Our immediate need is to allow fast resolution of BCP47 violations with the existing content and propagation of these codes in other non-Wikimedia projects that don't like this pollution (when they need these codes for their own projects or localizations), even if we keep aliases on Wikimedia projects for interwikis (and we(ll locally use resolvers to replace the codes where appropriate for BCP47 conformance, for example in HTML/XML/CSS lang attributes, or for better indexing of our contents by search engines, to avoid them performing wrong guesses about the effective language used). Wikiemdia domains are perfectly valid with their codes. But interwiki codes cause a problem in Wikidata when they are used as if they were legitimate standard language codes. We urgently need this cleanup of interwiki codes in Wikidata, because this affects many other non-Wikimedia projects using the contents of Wikidata. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
