| Nemo_bis added a comment. |
In T213571#4875397, @Legoktm wrote:My understanding is that people wanted to be able to see languages in the Wikidata interface they didn't actually speak, so the workaround was to add boxes saying xx-0.
This use case is more correctly captured by the Translate extension, which has a preference for "assistant languages". There is an open feature request to make similar information available for reuse by different parts of the code, so that Wikibase can stop abusing Babel with what was supposed to be a quick and dirty solution and has ended up corrupting the language selection: T104912: Provide API for (likely) language preference.
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