https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27571
--- Comment #8 from Paul Selitskas <wizard...@ya.ru> 2011-02-26 12:27:38 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > Hoi, > be-tarask and be-x-old are the same. be would be the fall back language for > it. > However the localisation for be-tarask is (almost) complete. > Thanks, > GerardM MediaWiki core translation is done for 'be-tarask' so there is no reason for this. Our users hardly ever see English-written labels, so 'en' fallback is OK. (In reply to comment #6) > I think the real bug is that the compatibility alias "be-x-old" is listed in > the language selector in Special:Preferences to begin with. It should just be > left out of the list and silently and automatically replaced with "be-tarask" > for any users who happen to have selected it before. (The same should be done > for other language code aliases, such as "als" -> "gsw".) > > I'm trying to think of a way to fix this with minimal code bloat. One way to > do it would be to remove these aliases from $wgLanguageNames and move them to > a > new list, say, $wgLanguageAliases or something. Of course, this would > probably > involve changes to other parts of MediaWiki which use $wgLanguageNames, such > as > interwiki link handling. > > Or maybe just leave $wgLanguageNames as it is, but include a list of obsolete > language codes and their replacements so that they can be filtered out of > language selectors. > > (Actually, I'm not even sure what simply removing these aliases from > $wgLanguageNames would break. Fixing language selectors for users who have > selected an alias before should be easy, since we could just check if their > chosen language is in the list and use the fallback if not. Hmm... looks like > wfGetLangObj() assumes all valid languages are listed in either > $wgLanguageNames or $wgExtraLanguageNames, even though Language::factory() > doesn't. We could probably just drop that check, or add an extra check for > aliases.) I'm not sure, but 'be-x-old' exists because of the domain name be-x-old.wikipedia.org. If default MediaWiki language is not tied to the domain in WFM, so there's a reason to safely delete 'be-x-old'. Despite this, 3rd party tools may use domain name for language identification, so it can't be done. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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 Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
