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Lexemes in Ottoman Turkish (ota) tagged as ltr text on special pages
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When https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L18649 is shown on special pages such as Special:RecentChanges and Special:Contributions (e.g. here), the HTML contains <span class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="ota">قوقوروز</span>. Ottoman Turkish is written in the Arabic script, so it should be tagged as rtl, not ltr.

Arabic itself is correctly tagged as rtl, so it seems to be a problem with Ottoman Turkish specifically. The language-data database knows that ota uses the Arabic script. Perhaps it's caused by ota being one of the languages added for Wikidata via wmgExtraLanguageNames in InitialiseSettings.php?

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Nikki created this task.Sep 16 2018, 10:24 PM
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I think that this was fixed with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/902399 .

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Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE closed this task as Resolved.May 23 2024, 12:19 PM
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Yeah, the reproduction link now shows:

<span class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="ota">قوقوروز</span>

In principle, the general issue remains – if there’s a language only in $wmgExtraLanguageNames but without a MessagesXxx.php file, then MediaWiki doesn’t know whether it’s LTR or RTL yet. But the change Amir linked above should’ve fixed that for several RTL languages, so I think we can close this task for now. (IIRC there was also some other task for adding this kind of information to MediaWiki in general but I don’t think I could find it again.)

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