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System messages become English on sites with language 中文(zh) (Chinese generic) when logged out with certain header
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Description

When you're not logged in, visit Minecraft Wiki (ZH) with this header part accept-language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9 will cause a situation that system messages on the whole page displays in English, instead of the expected Simplified Chinese (zh-cn or zh-Hans-CN). This problem also occured on my own wiki, with MediaWiki version 1.35.1. Only system messages that contains a /en subpage are affected.

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This problem can cause a severe readability issue on Chinese sites.
It's reported by Traditional Chinese users that this kind of header part accept-language: zh-TW,zh;q=0.9 doesn't run into this problem, and will correctly show system messages in Traditional Chinese.
Currently, there's a workaround that by manually changing (or creating) the /zh-hans or zh-cn subpages, thus idk whether it's really related to Language Converter.

Event Timeline

Nikerabbit changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jan 4 2021, 10:36 AM
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I guess you can reproduce this by selecting zh or zh-TW from user preferences?

There is no language conversion for system messages.

@Lakejason0: Could you please answer the last comment? Thanks in advance!

This is both stalled but also tagged for MW-1.35-release... Proposing to decline this task if @Lakejason0 does not answer as nothing can be done.

Aklapper removed a project: MW-1.35-release.

Unfortunately closing this Phabricator task as no further information has been provided.

@Lakejason0: After you have provided the information asked for and if this still happens, please set the status of this task back to "Open" via the Add Action...Change Status dropdown. Thanks!