mul.ws (OldWikisource) now has translation administrator capabilities and we have many languages that we host but we cannot define the pages as being in that language using page info. E.g. I cannot define https://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page/Dagbanli&action=info as being in dag. Please add these language codes--including mis, mul, und, and zxx.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T202794 Many more languages need to be added to Multilingual Wikisource (mul.ws) | |||
| Open | BUG REPORT | None | T320884 Special:PageLanguage does not include extra languages from $wmgExtraLanguageNames |
Well, changing page language is part of the Translate extension, so I think someone from Language-Team could tell us that. I'm not sure if changing it in language-data is enough – I added a few languages there six months ago, but those are still not available to choose as page languages, so there must be something more to do. Maybe @Nikerabbit or @Amire80 could shed some light on the matter?
Looked some more into it, and it seems that the list of languages you can choose corresponds directly to the list of languages in Names.php.
If there is a standard Names.php deployed to most WMF projects, it would need to be greatly expanded at mul.ws--that is the only project that is intended to host multilingual content (with Commons, Data, and Species being presumably language-agnostic repositories) and that also includes very small languages that will never have content elsewhere. In fact, some of the content there may not be linguistic at all, so we need to have the four special codes listed above and possibly even the private use area to define if that's an option.
See T190129: Consolidate language metadata into a 'language-data' library and use in MediaWiki.
In the meantime, these could possibly be added with local wiki configuration using $wgExtraLanguageNames.
List of languages with valid language codes and at least some content in oldwikisource:
Not in Names.php:
Already in Names.php:
Additionally, we have Chono and Bolak, which would be under mis and there are several multilingual sources, which are mul. This is why we need the four special codes as well as the private area to define... Thanks for this list.
Yes, I'm aware of that. However, for MediaWiki it is technically valid even though it shouldn't be.
This query currently finds 17. It's based on my additions at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18198097#P407 (that can be incomplete). Maybe it's worthing going through them and check which ones could be added.
This seems to be a neverending task. Accordingly I added Tracking-Neverending . For actually needed codes, separate tickets (grouped or individual) would be preferable.
T202794#4536734 is a definite list, hence removing Tracking-Neverending (see also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#.22Tracking.22_tasks )
The problem with that list is that it includes languages without any actual content (maybe arp was deleted since) and when we get to the end of it, https://wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Languages could be including others. The 17 from the query might be a worthwhile sub-task.
Since the request is to add the languages to Special:PageLanguage, adding the languages doesn’t make sense without the form actually displaying them, i.e. without T320884 resolved.