Multidirectional language conversion for content pages using LanguageConverter should be prevented on multilingual wikis.
This was caused by T39338: $wgTranslateBlacklist of zh-* on metawiki as it is not a Meta-Wiki-only configuration change.
This is not an issue for monodirectional language conversion; however, this had caused several issues:
- The {{ll template cannot recognize LanguageConverter syntax in the page display title
- Especially for MediaWiki.org
- LanguageConverter syntax exposed on pages without original converter and cannot easily choose the variant to transclude
- For example, we cannot choose to transclude the converted zh-hant version from zh pages in non-zh pages.
- The Translate special page become a mess because:
- Badly mixed translation memories (TM)
- There are no proper places to place page-wide conversion rules
- There are many manual conversion tags in the translation unit
- The preview cannot handle LanguageConverter syntax properly
- T39557: Untranslated units should not be converted to script variants
- (to be addressed)
On a translation management perspective, the way we translate MediaWiki.org should be like we translate system interface messages on translatewiki.net.