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A new alias for "Help:" namespace and a new pseudo-namespace for "Manual of Styles" on Persian Wikipedia
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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):
Persian Wikipedia (fawiki): As per a community consensus, we need a new alias "ره" for "راهنما" (Help) namespace.
There is also a consensus for creating "شن" pseudo-namespace for Manual of Style.

This feature was first proposed by user Sunfyre on fawiki.

Benefits:
Ease linking in talk pages.

Event Timeline

pseudo-namespaces do not need to be created.

Change 888350 had a related patch set uploaded (by Superpes15; author: Superpes15):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [fawiki] Add an alias to Help namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/888350

@Jeeputer As said above, pseudo-namespace should be handled via wiki, as explained here (I saw that this page was already linked in the proposal on fawiki). The patch will add "ره" as alias for the "Help:" namespace. Thanks!

Anoop changed the subtype of this task from "Feature Request" to "Task".Feb 12 2023, 11:52 PM

@Jeeputer As said above, pseudo-namespace should be handled via wiki, as explained here (I saw that this page was already linked in the proposal on fawiki). The patch will add "ره" as alias for the "Help:" namespace. Thanks!

Thank you. I didn't read that part and missed that explanation.

Change 888350 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [fawiki] Add an alias to Help namespace

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/888350

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-02-13T08:10:28Z] <taavi@deploy1002> Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:888331|Add a temporary logo to trwikiquote (Vector legacy + Vector 2022) (T329399)]], [[gerrit:888348|[bjnwiki] Change time zone setting (T328887)]], [[gerrit:888350|[fawiki] Add an alias to Help namespace (T329465)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-02-13T08:20:29Z] <taavi@deploy1002> taavi and superpes: Backport for [[gerrit:888331|Add a temporary logo to trwikiquote (Vector legacy + Vector 2022) (T329399)]], [[gerrit:888348|[bjnwiki] Change time zone setting (T328887)]], [[gerrit:888350|[fawiki] Add an alias to Help namespace (T329465)]] synced to the testservers: mwdebug2002.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug1002.eqiad.wmnet, mwdebug2001.codfw.wmnet, mwdebug1001.eqiad.wmnet

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-02-13T08:29:52Z] <taavi@deploy1002> Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:888331|Add a temporary logo to trwikiquote (Vector legacy + Vector 2022) (T329399)]], [[gerrit:888348|[bjnwiki] Change time zone setting (T328887)]], [[gerrit:888350|[fawiki] Add an alias to Help namespace (T329465)]] (duration: 19m 24s)

@Jeeputer No problem :) It's done!