⚓ T7231 Mouseover explanations for interlanguage links in native languages


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Mouseover explanations for interlanguage links in native languages

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waythrow-bzmz wrote:

Can somebody (Brion?) explain why this bug is "resolved" as wontfix?
If you don't give a convincing reason, I (or somebody else) am going to reopen it.

Maintaining language lists was unmaintainable (200+ * 200+), so years ago we switched to native-names only.

waythrow-bzmz wrote:

Thank you. I am new to this and was not aware that features must be implemented
for all languages. I gather it is impossible to do this for English only.

Reopening as it seems be feasible now with the CLDR extension. Working on it...

theevilipaddress wrote:

The interlanguage have recently got their title in the tooltip. Adding this would lead to potential conflicts.

(In reply to comment #8)

The interlanguage have recently got their title in the tooltip. Adding this
would lead to potential conflicts.

Is this live already? And what is displayed in the currently implemented titles?

Why not having both? As in <LanguageName: PageTitle>. For example, the Community portal url given in comment 0 would have for the ar: link the following tooltip: "Arabic: ويكيبيديا:بوابة المجتمع".

p.selitskas wrote:

Submitted a patch in Gerrit change #35871

L10N team: Could anybody review the patch in Gerrit, please?

@Nemo_bis : elwiki gives "Αζερμπαϊτζανικά" while CLDR gives "Αζερικά" for "az". There are many examples like this. If MediaWiki was sourcing the language names from CLDR, wouldn't these values be the same?

And, just for the record, CLDR is right in this case, not MediaWiki. What's more interesting, CLDR has been submitting this value at least since 2009! Although I'm very keen in helping CLDR with translations, why should I with examples like this one? This needs to be resolved, so that people do not feel like they work in vain.

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