| Amire80 added a comment. |
OK, I still have my question (T144272#3322282): Why are languages still added in PHP code, such as https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/370308/2/repo/includes/WikibaseRepo.php ?
This is data. This is not supposed to be code. It's a really bad practice. We already have too many repositories of language codes.
I strongly suggest scrapping getMonolingualTextLanguages() and adding these codes to the same langdb that is used by the UniversalLanguageSelector extension. Recently it was separated to its own repository: https://github.com/santhoshtr/language-data (it's about to be moved under the wikimedia account). Languages are added to a YAML file, which is also autoconverted to JSON, and it's usable on backend and on frontend.
Please, let's have less places for language codes, not more.
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