Include Massa(mcn) Language support on Wikidata
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The Massa language is one of the Cameroonian language which is spoken in the North-West part of Cameroon.

There is a community ready to support this language on Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects, hence the need to have this language as a supported language.

Language information:

Masssa
Bongor, Bugudum (Budugum)
Country: Cameroon, Chad
ISO 639-3: mcn

Purpose:
This language(Massa) in the first phase will be used to edit Labels/Description/Aliases on Wikidata, as the contributors are quite new to Wikimedia projects.

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Add termbox language codes aqg and mcn	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	master	+2 -0
Add language codes agq and mcn to wmgExtraLanguageNames	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+4 -0
Add termbox language codes aqg and mcn	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	wmf/1.38.0-wmf.7	+2 -0
Add language codes mcn and tlh-latn / tlh-piqd	mediawiki/extensions/cldr	master	+6 -0

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Mbch331	T263946 Add support for some African Languages on Wikidata
		Resolved		Mbch331	T293884 Include Massa(mcn) Language support on Wikidata

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Eugene233 created this task.Oct 20 2021, 12:53 PM

Restricted Application removed a project: Patch-For-Review. · View Herald TranscriptOct 20 2021, 12:53 PM

This can be added.

Change 734713 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mbch331; author: Mbch331):

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] Add termbox language codes aqg and mcn

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/734713

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 26 2021, 6:39 PM

Change 734717 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mbch331; author: Mbch331):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add language codes agq and mcn to wmgExtraLanguageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/734717

Mbch331 moved this task from To Do (prioritised from top to bottom) to Peer Review on the Wikidata-Campsite (Wikidata-Campsite-Iteration-∞ (On Hold)) board.Oct 26 2021, 6:57 PM

Mbch331 moved this task from Backlog to Wikidata (termbox languages) on the Language codes board.

Change 734718 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mbch331; author: Mbch331):

[mediawiki/extensions/cldr@master] Add language codes mcn and tlh-latn / tlh-piqd

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/734718

Is the autonym Massa or Massana? (Or something else?)

Maintenance_bot moved this task from incoming to in progress on the Wikidata board.Oct 29 2021, 10:15 AM

The autonym is Massana

In a dictionary I saw, it's "vùn màsànà".

Where will this autonym appear?

After looking out for some things about the language myself, saw from from Ethnologue the autonym.

Ethnologue is not always the most reliable :)

But what I am really wondering about is why is Lucas asking about the autonym. I thought that languages are configured internally in Wikibase without autonym.

In Wikibase, yes, but @Mbch331’s changes also add the language to wmgExtraLanguageNames, where the autonym is included. (Eventually we’ll hopefully get rid of that – see T273627 – but depending on where the autonym is used, maybe we’ll add the autonyms to the Wikibase config. I’m not sure.)

In T293884#7467903, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote:

In Wikibase, yes, but @Mbch331’s changes also add the language to wmgExtraLanguageNames, where the autonym is included. (Eventually we’ll hopefully get rid of that – see T273627 – but depending on where the autonym is used, maybe we’ll add the autonyms to the Wikibase config. I’m not sure.)

Oh, OK. So I recommend "vùn màsànà" for that. It appears in the dictionary by Melis Antonino, which I received from @Eugene233 himself. I love Ethnologue, but I trust dictionaries more :)

In T293884#7467903, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote:

In Wikibase, yes, but @Mbch331’s changes also add the language to wmgExtraLanguageNames, where the autonym is included. (Eventually we’ll hopefully get rid of that – see T273627 – but depending on where the autonym is used, maybe we’ll add the autonyms to the Wikibase config. I’m not sure.)

Yes. Because termbox languages also need to be in wmgExtraLanguageNames for them to work properly.

Change 734718 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/cldr@master] Add language codes mcn and tlh-latn / tlh-piqd

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/734718

• Manuel edited projects, added Wikidata-Campsite (Team A Hearth 🏰🔥); removed Wikidata-Campsite (Wikidata-Campsite-Iteration-∞ (On Hold)).Nov 3 2021, 10:01 AM

• Manuel moved this task from Incoming to Peer Review on the Wikidata-Campsite (Team A Hearth 🏰🔥) board.

Change 737453 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE); author: Mbch331):

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@wmf/1.38.0-wmf.7] Add termbox language codes aqg and mcn

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/737453

Change 737453 abandoned by Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE):

[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@wmf/1.38.0-wmf.7] Add termbox language codes aqg and mcn

Reason:

nah, actually, I8c9fd6e03b should be enough, I don’t think this needs backporting at all

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/737453

Change 734717 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Add language codes agq and mcn to wmgExtraLanguageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/734717

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-11-09T12:07:53Z] <lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Config: [[gerrit:734717|Add language codes agq and mcn to wmgExtraLanguageNames (T288335, T293884)]] (duration: 00m 56s)