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Disable blanking of message documentation - /qqq pages
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Inspired by T271294 I suggest ot disable the possibility to blank message documentation pages (qqq). This can lead to confusion on various sided,

qqq are there for documentation. I see no valid reason to blank such pages.

Possible solution: Create an abuse filter. A message documentation should have a length of at least 5 (?) characters. This would prohibit to fool the filter with text like "-" or similar

Maybe limited to the MediaWiki namespace because I do not have overview over the needs of the other projects.

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Raymond created this task.Jan 8 2021, 10:59 AM
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Raymond mentioned this in T271294: New empty definitions and translations are ignored on import by processMessageGroupChanges.php.Jan 8 2021, 11:00 AM
Tgr subscribed.Jan 9 2021, 12:17 AM

Blanking will break CI for some repos (anything that uses the disallowEmptyDocumentation banana-checker flag). If it's not strictly blank, I don't think there's a strong reason to care.

Tgr added a comment.Jan 9 2021, 12:18 AM

(There is also the same issue with blank translations and the disallowBlankTranslations flag. I don't know if it can be said that blank translations are 100% always wrong, though.)

Aklapper mentioned this in T273705: disallow use by Incubator of language codes such as "en-gb", "es-mx", "qqq" etc.Feb 3 2021, 8:25 AM
Nikerabbit moved this task from Backlog to System admin stuff on the translatewiki.net board.Dec 20 2022, 11:37 AM
Verdy_p subscribed.May 27 2023, 9:37 PM

There are some cases where there was no documentation at all in /qqq, but one was added just to add some temporary "FIXME" note, that should be removed once solved.
One way to avoid that limitation should be to find a relevant documentation, or keep a "FIXME" asking for such missing documentation (that should have been set when resolving the previous issue).

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