[Task] Remove universally bad language codes from the set of language codes available for monolingual text values
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	• adrianheine
	Jan 28 2016, 10:24 AM

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There are some language codes currently supported that we should not support at all. They have to be removed from PHP and JS ContentLanguages.

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove bad language codes from mono languages	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	master	+188 -4
	More readable DifferenceContentLanguages parameters	mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase	master	+26 -26

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T124286 [Epic] Wikidata language support
Resolved	• adrianheine	T124757 [Story] Improve the set of language codes available for monolingual text values
Resolved	None	T125063 [Task] Remove universally bad language codes from the set of language codes available for monolingual text values

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• adrianheine updated the task description. (Show Details)

Language codes that are not even well-formed BCP 47 language codes
- tokipona, simple
Duplicate, deprecated language codes
- roa-rup (=> rup), bat-smg (=> sgs), be-x-old (=> be-tarask), fiu-vro (=> vro), zh-min-nan (=> nan), zh-yue (=> yue), zh-classical (=> lzh)
Language codes we don't want for semantic reasons
- de-formal, nl-informal

T125073 could be a follow-up.

Change 267031 had a related patch set uploaded (by Adrian Lang):
Remove bad language codes from mono languages

Tobi_WMDE_SW set Security to None.

Change 268658 had a related patch set uploaded (by Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)):
More readable DifferenceContentLanguages parameters

Change 267031 merged by jenkins-bot:
Remove bad language codes from mono languages

• Jonas closed this task as Resolved.Feb 9 2016, 10:09 AM

Change 268658 merged by jenkins-bot:
More readable DifferenceContentLanguages parameters