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Should we move API:Main page to API:Action API

Since Action API is not the only API of MediaWiki. GZWDer (talk) 10:13, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

@GZWDer: That seems reasonable, though we of course have api.wikimedia.org as the main user-facing pages nowadays. I think this is something the MediaWiki Interfaces team owns, however, so I would want their opinion first. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 09:46, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Bump to prevent archival. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:17, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Pinging MWI product manager HCoplin-WMF per Jdforrester's comment above ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 09:13, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Bump. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:12, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Note that this move would require a sysadmin due to the translatable page containing more than 500 bits. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 01:09, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

(Restored. Would be great to get an answer on this.) Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 10:31, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Fake future comment to stop archival. DoNotArchiveUntil (no talk) 12:00, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

I support moving it. —TheDJ (Not WMF) (talk • contribs) 13:39, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Should this discussion be moved to Phabricator; both so that it can be specifically tagged for the MW Interfaces team's attention, and also given that - in any event - a maintenance script run would be needed to move this page (per Pppery)? Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 17:01, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

@A smart kitten: I don't think forking the conversation to Phab is necessary. I'll ping the team again about this. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 13:42, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Language codes in `Page display title` translations

There are a number of Page display title translations that contain just the page's name plus the translation's language code (e.g., Extension:UploadWizard/fr). (This search should hopefully be an okay heuristic for finding some of them, though it does contain a number of false positives.)

As far as I can see (please correct me if I'm wrong!), page-display-title translations shouldn't contain the language code (e.g. /fr) at the end like this; as it isn't part of a translation of a page's title, and as it causes {{Localized link }} to include that language code when linking from other pages in the same language.

Because of this, should these translation pages be deleted/be edited to have the language code removed (or, where a previous revision exists without the language code included in the text, reverted back to that)?

Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 14:58, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Sounds like a question for a translation admin like @Shirayuki but I think faulty pages should be renamed. It doesn't look like a trivial task though, unless the number of badly named pages is very small. Tactica (talk) 13:07, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Nate Oakman

Nate Oakman (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism. special:diff/7730450 XReport -- — Jeff G. ツ 13:04, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 13:10, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Ash Loren

Ash Loren (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Spam XReport --MathXplore (talk) 14:49, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 16:15, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Semi protection for Help:Temporary accounts

Hello, could you please semi-protect Help:Temporary accounts permanently, as this page is linked to the notice where the unregistered user try to edit (i.e. Warning: You are not logged in. Once you make an edit, a temporary account will be created for you. Learn more.). Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 06:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 11:45, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Can you unprotect Template:DB?

This template was incorrectly protected, Despite the template being "This page is protected so it can only be edited by administrators", so can you use a special page to unprotect this? ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:09, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

The link is found here:

Template:DB?action=protect ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Why? And what exactly is incorrect? --Clump (talk) 17:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

It was the template Delete because (DB), it needs to be unprotected, It says "allow only administrators", It should be "allow all users". ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:16, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Again, why? It was protected due to ongoing vandalism. There's no need for all users to be able to edit it. --Clump (talk) 17:25, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Wait, It needs to be unprotected. ~2025-145089 (talk) 17:28, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Request declined. --Clump (talk) 17:33, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-24195-9

~2025-24195-9 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --MathXplore (talk) 11:42, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 11:43, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-26937-0

~2025-26937-0 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Long-term abuse. Please also block their IP. XReport --SCP-2000 (talk) 12:49, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

How is this "long-term abuse"? I'm not seeing it. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 05:56, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Página "Special:ExpandTemplates"

Nesta página:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates

deve-se ler no título "Modelos" 'NÃO "Predefinições"

e no texto "... do analisador sintático, ..." deve ser "... do analisador, ..."

Obrigada

MS @Aamrs Mansil (talk) 12:14, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Why is an EN-5 writing in Portuguese here? :-P

If a translation is wrong you can fix it yourself. In the case of a Special: page, translations are usually done on translatewiki so you should raise the matter there. If the issue is a translation from a template expanded here by the special page, just fix the template (translation). Tactica (talk) 12:47, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Change content model to JSON

Hi! May someone change content model for Manual:Language/fallback-languages-list.json, please? :) Iniquity (talk) 18:03, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Done. Cheers :) –Quiddity (talk) 18:19, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! :) Iniquity (talk) 18:21, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Global ban for Chealer

Hello, this message is to notify that Chealer has been nominated for a global ban at m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Chealer. You are receiving this notification as required per the global ban policy as they have made at least 1 edit on this wiki. Thanks, --SHB2000 (talk) 11:21, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Marking Skin:Lakeus for translation

Hello! Could I kindly ask if one of the translation admins could help me with marking Skin:Lakeus for translation? I think that maybe Shirayuki isn't around at the moment (they previously help me with this matter). Thanks in advance! -- Lakejason0 (talk) 12:58, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Done Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 20:40, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2025-26462-8

~2025-26462-8 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --MathXplore (talk) 22:49, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --Clump (talk) 00:55, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Change to translatewiki.net/Miraheze-Meta page translation target languages

Currently, the page translation target language configuration on mediawiki.org were inherited from the "language converter page translation model".

However, this actually created several problems including the broken page transclutions with malfunctioned language converter tags exposed and using the workaround of Template:Conversion-zh, Template:LC zh. More breakages could be found on phab:T328838.

I would like to propose to use the "translatewiki.net page translation model"/"Miraheze Meta page translation model" instead on mediawiki.org after the related proposal had been discussed, supported and approved and changes had been done on Wikifunctions.

Below are examples of the proposed translation model.

More briefly for the zh part: The old configuration can only translate into zh while the new configuration can translate into zh-hans (for zh-Hans-CN, zh-Hans-MY, zh-Hans-SG), zh-hant (for zh-Hant-TW) and zh-hk (for zh-Hant-HK, zh-Hant-MO).

Note: "translatewiki.net page translation model"/"Miraheze Meta page translation model" refer to the same translation model.

-- Winston Sung (talk) 08:02, 30 July 2025 (UTC)