NS_CATEGORY (TALK) misspelt for 'ext'
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	MarcoAurelio
	Feb 10 2017, 11:35 PM

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MessagesExt.php

NS_CATEGORY         => 'Categoria',
NS_CATEGORY_TALK    => 'Categoria_caraba',

should be:

MessagesExt.php

NS_CATEGORY         => 'Categoría',
NS_CATEGORY_TALK    => 'Categoría_caraba',

I've renamed them at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/336986 but doing so will break, if I understand it rightly, all Categoria: pages. So I've submitted https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/337192/ adding the wrongly named ones as temporary namespace aliases so nothing breaks in the meanwhile. A bot can be tasked with renaming those pages later.

Did not added those at MediaWiki core because I don't think we should encourage using wrongly named/translated words. Also, 'ext' is a barely used language and the potential damange is close to 0.

If somebody has a better idea about how to handle this please do comment. Thanks!

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Fix NS_CATEGORY/NS_CATEGORY_TALK for MessagesExt.php in core	mediawiki/core	master	+7 -2
	Adding "Categoria:" as namespace alias for ext.wikipedia	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+4 -0

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		Resolved		MarcoAurelio	T157846 NS_CATEGORY (TALK) misspelt for 'ext'
		Resolved		MarcoAurelio	T158914 namespaceDupes.php for ext.wikipedia

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MarcoAurelio created this task.Feb 10 2017, 11:35 PM

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Change 337192 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarcoAurelio):
Adding "Categoria:" as namespace alias for ext.wikipedia

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/337192

Change 336986 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarcoAurelio):
Fix NS_CATEGORY/NS_CATEGORY_TALK for MessagesExt.php in core

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336986

Maybe there's an easier solution. Apparently namespaceDupes.php could be used to migrate those to the proper namespace once the MediaWiki core change is merged and live.

https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/16324 gives +600 category pages and associated talk pages to rename. Will be better handled with that maintenance script if at all possible.

MarcoAurelio moved this task from Backlog to Language changes on the MediaWiki-Internationalization board.Feb 11 2017, 12:08 AM

MarcoAurelio moved this task from Backlog to Working on on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.

Proposed steps:

Merge MediaWiki core patch
Cherry-pick the above to current wmf branches
Run namespaceDupes to rename the wrongly named pages from Categoria: to Categoría:

If anyone has a better idea, feel free to share.

Change 337192 abandoned by MarcoAurelio:
Adding "Categoria:" as namespace alias for ext.wikipedia

Reason:
Per Raimond.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/337192

Change 336986 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fix NS_CATEGORY/NS_CATEGORY_TALK for MessagesExt.php in core

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/336986

ReleaseTaggerBot added projects: MW-1.29-release-notes, MW-1.29-release (WMF-deploy-2017-02-21_(1.29.0-wmf.13)).Feb 16 2017, 9:00 AM

Core change merged. Shall we cherry-pick to wmf.11 & 12 and run the script to migrate the pages or shall we wait until wmf.13 hits extwiki?

Not worth for RELEASE-NOTES IMHO.

@Dereckson @Raymond T157846#3032674 ? Thanks!

MarcoAurelio triaged this task as Low priority.Feb 19 2017, 7:06 PM