It is probably worth opening a bug on Phabricator. As far as I can tell
Special:MyLanguage (
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/master/includes/specials/SpecialMyLanguage.php)
does not include any logic for using the fallback languages which for
de-formal is de.

RhinosF1

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 14:23, Bernhard Krabina, KM-A <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
>
> in a regular MediaWiki installation switched to de-formal, all help links
> point to the English versions. This is probably because there is not
> de-formal version of the MediaWiki documentation, which of course is fine.
> But all links to SpecialMyLanguage should lead to the German documentation,
> for settings of “de”, “de-formal”, “de-at” etc.
>
>
>
> As an example: the help icon on Special:Recent changes leads to
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Recent_changes
>
>
>
> But if you set your wiki to de-formal, it will lead you to the English
> help pages instead the German ones.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Bernhard
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