MediaWiki already lets you create Language objects for any language code, even if it's not otherwise supported, even completely bogus ones, as long as they don't contain special characters. Consider e.g. the existence of https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork.

Change 858637 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Trust LanguageFactory to construct Language objects

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/858637

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 18 2022, 7:58 PM

In T304009#8406441, @matmarex wrote:

MediaWiki already lets you create Language objects for any language code, even if it's not otherwise supported, even completely bogus ones, as long as they don't contain special characters. Consider e.g. the existence of https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork.

Yup, indeed; I'll correct this title to be clearer.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Come up with a way for WikiLambda to create Language objects that MediaWiki doesn't generally support for our special languages to Come up with a way for WikiLambda to register Language objects that MediaWiki doesn't generally support for our special languages, so that the rest of the MW stack understands them.Nov 21 2022, 2:33 PM

Change 858637 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Trust LanguageFactory to construct Language objects

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/858637

Is there anything else to be done here?

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.12; 2022-11-28).Nov 28 2022, 5:01 PM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 28 2022, 5:31 PM

I assume it's done then.

In T304009#8425289, @matmarex wrote:

Is there anything else to be done here?

I don't think anything's been done here yet?

I guess I misunderstood what this task was about then, because I thought that my patch is fixing it. Don't mind me then…

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Lowest priority.Mar 24 2023, 1:01 AM

Mcastro moved this task from To triage: Nice-to-haves to No current plans / External on the Abstract Wikipedia team board.Feb 15 2024, 5:48 PM

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