Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE created this task. Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE added projects: Wikidata, Language codes. Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper.
TASK DESCRIPTION Time was, extra language codes for Wikidata labels were added by adding them to the `wmgExtraLanguageNames` in the `wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php` (for the wikidata dblist and later also commonswiki). This was bad for several reasons, and so we eventually moved that configuration to Wikibase (T260118: Move content of $wgExtraLanguageNames on Wikidata to default Terms languages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260118>). However, soon afterwards we added the `wmgExtraLanguageNames` back to the production config (T264295: Reinstate $wgExtraLanguageCodes in production <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264295>). We would like to remove it again to avoid confusion and issues – for instance, T272242: Language code "dag" for Dagbani does not work for lexemes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272242> happened because the language code `'dag'` was added to the Wikibase list but not the `wmgExtraLanguageNames`. Removing the production `wmgExtraLanguageNames` is blocked on at least two tasks: - T124758: [Story] Show all available languages in monolingual text value's suggester <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124758>. This is the original reason we reinstated `wmgExtraLanguageNames`: without it, those additional languages are harder to use. - T273625: Make lexeme language codes inherit from Wikibase default terms languages, not MediaWiki content languages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273625>. Language codes like `kea`, `nod` and `ota` are currently only available for Lexemes on Wikidata because they are in the `wmgExtraLanguageNames` – they’re also in the Wikibase language codes, but WikibaseLexeme currently doesn’t use those. If we remove `wmgExtraLanguageNames` before T273625 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273625> is done, then those language codes will become unavailable for Lexemes on Wikidata. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273627 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE Cc: Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Aklapper, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, Mahir256, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Nikki, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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