daniel added a comment.

It's about 10x harder //and// 10x more error prone than just picking sr-el or 
sr-ec explicitly, instead of picking just sr. You have to pick a language 
anyway.

Disallowing plain "sr" for input is an easy task, and should hopefully 
uncontroversial.
Auto-detecting languages or variants is a heuristic with the potential to 
introduce errors, has no clear scope (which languages can be detected), and 
needs quite a bit of scaffolding (we need to architecture a place for the 
detection logic to live).

Auto-detecting is nice, but I'd consider it a long term feature request. 
In contrast, I consider dropping support for plain "sr" a relatively simple bug 
fix. The only issue may be that the community is actually (ab)using this issue 
as a "feature" in some way. There is an annoying tendency among users to rely 
on bugs, and complain when you fix them...


TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97882

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