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Please provide an up-to-date list or table of fallback languages
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I need something like https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation_statistics , or like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Fallbacklist - basically, a single page (not a visual) that allows me to quickly search for a language name and figure out which fallback language/cluster it belongs to.

If I had to check only on a few languages, I'm aware, per Amir, that I could manually look for the $fallback line in the relevant file in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/languages/messages/ , but that is not doable for dozens or hundred checks.

If we had an up-to-date list, we may be able to build better delivery lists for MassMessage rather than always resorting to using English to message wikis. (Think https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Distribution_list/Global_message_delivery/fr, but it also has Wolof and others.)

If folks know how to build such a resource, even though they can't personally do it - please just document it? Thanks.

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@Legoktm The way info is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Fallbacklist works for me, if it makes sense.
I believe that one may be based on the data the .svg uses, and Amir commented it's too outdated and didn't recommend using it.

@Amire80 I notice that @Nikerabbit actually updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_fallback_chains.svg back then.
It's still not in a non-visual format, but other than that I would have hoped for it to be accurate,
but I see that Ukrainian is still set to fallback to Russian which I thought wasn't the case any longer?

It's not uk -> ru, but rue -> uk, ru. The graph cannot distinguish such cases.

A text-based version of it would, though.

developer@dev:~/mediawiki/workdir/languages/messages (master)$ grep '$fallback ' * | sed 's/^Messages\(.*\)\..* '"'"'\(.*\).;.*/\L\1: \2/;s/_/-/'
ab: ru
abs: id
ace: id
ady: ady-cyrl
aeb-arab: ar
aeb: aeb-arab
aln: sq
alt: ru
ami: zh-hant
an: es
anp: hi
arn: es
arq: ar
ary: ar
arz: ar
ast: es
atj: fr
avk: fr, es, ru
av: ru
awa: hi
ay: es
azb: fa
ban-bali: ban
ban: id
ba: ru
bar: de
bbc-latn: id
bbc: bbc-latn
bcc: fa
be-tarask: be
bgn: fa
bh: bho
bi: en
bjn: id
bm: fr
bpy: bn
bqi: fa
br: fr
btm: id
bug: id
bxr: ru
ca: oc
MessagesCbk-zam.php:$fallback = "es";
cdo: nan, zh-hant
ce: ru
co: it
crh-cyrl: ru
crh: crh-latn
csb: pl
cs: sk
cv: ru
de-at: de
de-ch: de
de-formal: de
dsb: hsb, de
dtp: ms
dty: ne
egl: it
eml: it
en-ca: en
en-gb: en
MessagesEn.php:$fallback = false;
es-formal: es
ext: es
ff: fr
fit: fi
frc: fr
frp: fr
frr: de
fur: it
gag: tr
gan-hans: zh-hans
gan-hant: zh-hant, zh-hans
gan: gan-hant, zh-hant, zh-hans
gcr: fr
glk: fa
gl: pt
gn: es
gom-deva: hi
gom: gom-deva
gor: id
gsw: de
hak: zh-hant
hif: hif-latn
hrx: de
hsb: dsb, de
ht: fr
hu-formal: hu
hyw: hy
ii: zh-cn, zh-hans
inh: ru
io: eo
iu: ike-cans
jam: en
jut: da
jv: id
kaa: kk-latn, kk-cyrl
kab: fr
kbd-cyrl: ru
kbd: kbd-cyrl
kbp: fr
khw: ur
kiu: tr
kjp: my
kk-arab: kk-cyrl
kk-cn: kk-arab, kk-cyrl
kk-kz: kk-cyrl
kk-latn: kk-cyrl
kk: kk-cyrl
kk-tr: kk-latn, kk-cyrl
kl: da
koi: ru
ko-kp: ko
krc: ru
krl: fi
ksh: de
ks: ks-arab
ku-arab: ckb
kum: ru
ku: ku-latn
kv: ru
lad: es
lbe: ru
lb: de
lez: ru, az
lij: it
li: nl
liv: et
lki: fa
lld: it, rm, fur
lmo: pms, eml, lij, vec, it
ln: fr
lrc: fa
ltg: lv
luz: fa
lzh: zh-hant
lzz: tr
mai: hi
map-bms: jv, id
mdf: myv, ru
mg: fr
mhr: mrj, ru
min: id
mnw: my
mo: ro
mrj: mhr, ru
mwl: pt
myv: mdf, ru
mzn: fa
nah: es
nan: cdo, zh-hant
nap: it
nb: nn
nds-nl: nl
nds: de
nl-informal: nl
nn: nb
nrm: fr
oc: ca, fr
olo: fi
os: ru
pcd: fr
pdc: de
pdt: de
pfl: de
pih: en
pms: it
pnt: el
pt-br: pt
pt: pt-br
qug: qu, es
qu: qug, es
rgn: it
rmy: ro
roa-tara: it
rue: uk, ru
rup: ro
ruq-cyrl: mk
ruq-latn: ro
ruq: ruq-latn, ro
sah: ru
sa: hi
scn: it
sco: en
sdc: it
sdh: cbk, fa
ses: fr
sg: fr
sgs: lt
sh: bs, sr-el, hr
shy-latn: fr, arq
sk: cs
skr-arab: ur, pnb
skr: skr-arab
sli: de
srn: nl
sr: sr-ec
stq: de
sty: ru
su: id
szl: pl
szy: zh-tw, zh-hant, zh-hans
tay: zh-hant
tcy: kn
tet: pt
tg: tg-cyrl
tly: ru
trv: zh-hant
tt-cyrl: ru
tt: tt-cyrl, ru
ty: fr
tyv: ru
udm: ru
ug: ug-arab
vec: it
vep: et
vls: nl
vmf: de
vot: fi
vro: et
wa: fr
wo: fr
wuu: zh-hans
xal: ru
xmf: ka
yi: he
za: zh-hans
zea: nl
zgh: kab
zh-cn: zh-hans
zh-hant: zh-hans
zh-hk: zh-hant, zh-hans
zh-mo: zh-hk, zh-hant, zh-hans
zh-my: zh-sg, zh-hans
zh: zh-hans
zh-sg: zh-hans
zh-tw: zh-hant, zh-hans

TYSM! I will figure out where to put this ASAP ^_^

TYSM! I will figure out where to put this ASAP ^_^

I've clarified the link (formerly just "(grep)") in the last sentence of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Language#Fallback_languages for the link to the code search.
IIUC that link is giving the same output as Nikerabbit's comment above? If so, that might cover it? Alternatively we could add a link to the comment above, into that page, but that will rapidly get outdated.

That doesn't look like a friendly page for someone as lost as I was. But agreed that we may not need much more than a link at this time.

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That doesn't look like a friendly page for someone as lost as I was. But agreed that we may not need much more than a link at this time.

Based on the previous comments I'll close the ticket, but feel free to reopen if additional details are needed.