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[[MediaWiki:Coll-bookscategory]] target on Wikimedia wikis is bad
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I think we might want to override this to Project:Books on Wikimedia wikis (otherwise the books clutter the content books category)

Draft step-by-step process to fixing this (started by @Amire80; feel free to correct it):

  • Check whether any Wikipedias localized the name using Global Search. (This will be useful for understanding the necessity.)
  • Take a look at the category with this name on wikis that use the Collection extension (or at least at a sample of wikis), and understand the extent of the problem.
  • If the above steps don't bring up something very weird, add a message to WikimediaMessages that overrides this category.
  • If feasible and necessary (according to the first step in this list), add the existing translations without having to go through translating on translatewiki.
  • After deployment, check that the new category works as expected.

Message URL: https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&showMessage=coll-bookscategory&group=ext-collection-user&language=uk

Event Timeline

Base renamed this task from [[MediaWiki:Coll-collections/uk]] translation issue to [[MediaWiki:Coll-bookscategory]] target on Wikimedia wikis is bad.Feb 12 2023, 6:08 PM
Base updated the task description. (Show Details)

From a quick codesearch, it looks like the change might be required in the extension Collection.

@Base Could you explain more what you are proposing as the final change here? Should the title be Project:Books and only for Wikimedia wikis?

Amire80 subscribed.

I think it's more like WikimediaMessages and not the Collection extension itself (but I'm adding the tag because it's related enough).

The current message just says "Books", which is a likely category name for articles about books in Wikipedia in many languages. The pages that will be included in this category, are not for articles about books, but for books created using the Collection extension, so @Base's suggestion to use a different category name makes sense. And since it applies not just to the Ukrainian Wikipedia, but to many languages, it can be done in the WikimediaMessages extension.

I'll add a draft step-by-step process to do this to the task description. Feel free to correct it.