Spin-off from T69223: Schema change for page content language to finish satisfying T11360: Specify default language on a per-page basis / T37489: The source language of a page should be arbitrary on the relevant Wikimedia wikis.
All wikis with wmgUseTranslate true should also have $wgPageLanguageUseDB true and the relevant groups assigned the pagelang permission sysop and translation admin should suffice).
In a later step, we can consider adding other wikis and/or user groups.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | TTO | T153209 Actually enable Special:PageLanguage on all Translate wikis | |||
| Resolved | • jcrespo | T69223 Schema change for page content language | |||
| Resolved | • jcrespo | T138810 Set databases as read-only or switchover to secondary datacenter | |||
| Resolved | • jcrespo | T151029 duplicate key problems |
What is Special:PageLanguage suposed to do? Any link or explanation would
be helpful, even if it seems obvious to all of you. Thank you :-)
Change 327413 had a related patch set uploaded (by TTO):
Enable per-page language choice on beta cluster
Change 327416 had a related patch set uploaded (by TTO):
Enable per-page language choice on wikis with Translate
Change 327413 abandoned by TTO:
Enable per-page language choice on beta cluster
Reason:
It seems this can already be tested on testwiki (in both prod and labs). I don't think we need this patch.
Sorry about the noise... I had forgotten that this has been available on testwiki for a few months.
As far as the Translate extension is concerned, clearly the functionality has worked at some point, as Nemo created https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_translation_test with several translations from a Finnish source. My recent attempts at testing it today seem to have been hampered by some unrelated issue with the Translate extension, which is preventing translations from English and non-English source pages alike. See https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traduire_du_fran%C3%A7ais for an example.
Having said that, page language selection is working correctly on testwiki, so I've scheduled the config change (matching what is proposed in the task description) for the second-last SWAT of the year tomorrow morning.
It allows you to specify the content language of an individual page. This then tells the Translate system which language is the "source" language for translations of the page. Currently, the wiki's default language is the only possible source language.
From an on-wiki perspective, nothing will change unless community members actively decide to make use of this feature. Potential for abuse is essentially nil, as the right to change page languages will only be available to admins and translation administrators. What's more, it will only be available on wikis with the Translate extension installed.
Change 327416 merged by jenkins-bot:
Enable per-page language choice on wikis with Translate
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2016-12-15T19:14:12Z] <thcipriani@tin> Synchronized wmf-config: SWAT: [[gerrit:327416|Enable per-page language choice on wikis with Translate]] T153209 (duration: 00m 42s)
Thanks. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageLanguage loads for me and I've performed the first language change: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=20161216074100&limit=1&type=pagelang