Hi,
Is it possible to add a new alias to the Wikisource namespace, something like WS? The community consultation is here.
As there are already pages starting with WS: (but obviously in the namespace 0, as the alias doesn’t exist), what will happen to them after the creation? Do we need to recreate them ?
Thanks
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| frwikisource: Add WS as an alias to NS_PROJECT | operations/mediawiki-config | master | +1 -0 |
Is it possible to add a new alias to the Wikisource namespace, something like WS?
Yes, see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests#Change_a_namespace for technical info. :)
As there are already pages starting with WS:
They would become inaccessible, so you'd need to rename beforehand (as far as I know, someone feel free to correct me).
Not really, they will be moved automatically as part of creation of the namespace alias – it's handled by namespaceDupes.php maintenance script. The only issue is when deleting a namespace (alias), which is not the case here.
Change 659402 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] frwikisource: Add WS as an alias to NS_PROJECT
Change 659402 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] frwikisource: Add WS as an alias to NS_PROJECT
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-01-28T19:42:12Z] <urbanecm@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: 0ae49093893316657ffd7cf56669a470fb073352: frwikisource: Add WS as an alias to NS_PROJECT (T271939) (duration: 00m 57s)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-01-28T19:44:29Z] <Urbanecm> Run mwscript namespaceDupes.php --wiki=frwikisource --fix (T271939)
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-01-28T19:45:42Z] <Urbanecm> Run mwscript namespaceDupes.php --wiki=frwikisource --add-prefix=BROKEN --fix (T271939)
There are six pages that conflicted with another page in Wikisource namespace. I added "BROKEN" as prefix to all of them. The list is at https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Index?prefix=BROKEN&namespace=4. Please review them and rename/delete as appropriate. Thanks!