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Decide about Kanuri language code—kr or knc
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"kr" is a macro code. There's a suggestion to move the current translations and Incubator content to a specific language, Central Kanuri ("knc"): https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Support&oldid=12203568

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@Nikki Do you know which one is better to use from a BCP-47 POV?

@Nikki Do you know which one is better to use from a BCP-47 POV?

As far as BCP 47 is concerned, you can use either, but if you know it's Central Kanuri, then knc is preferred over kr because it's more precise (since kr only identifies it as being some variety of Kanuri).

The Language committee has received a linguistic expert assessment of this. It said that the current translation in translatewiki are in Central Kanuri, so we can just move them from kr to knc.

Code renaming instructions, although they probably need an update: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Renaming_language_codes

Change #1080348 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80; author: Amire80):

[mediawiki/extensions/cldr@master] Add local names for Central Kanuri (knc)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1080348

Change #1080354 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80; author: Amire80):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add Central Kanuri (knc), deprecate Kanuri (kr)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1080354

Change #1080356 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80; author: Amire80):

[translatewiki@master] Prohibit translation into language "kr"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1080356

Change #1080354 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Add Central Kanuri (knc), deprecate Kanuri (kr)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1080354

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Change #1080356 merged by jenkins-bot:

[translatewiki@master] Prohibit translation into language "kr"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1080356

Change #1080348 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/cldr@master] Add local names for Central Kanuri (knc)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1080348

Change #1083334 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80; author: Amire80):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add kr to DEPRECATED_LANGUAGE_CODE_MAPPING

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1083334

Change #1083826 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Update function-schemata sub-module to HEAD (f2c043c)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1083826

Change #1083829 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amire80; author: Amire80):

[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Update language search index

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1083829

Change #1083829 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Update language search index

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1083829

Change #1083826 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@master] Update function-schemata sub-module to HEAD (f2c043c)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1083826

Change #1090490 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@REL1_43] Update function-schemata sub-module to HEAD (f2c043c)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1090490

Change #1090490 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikiLambda@REL1_43] Update function-schemata sub-module to HEAD (f2c043c)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1090490

Change #1090892 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Upgrade orchestrator from 2024-10-15-192817 to 2024-11-13-145636

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1090892

Change #1090893 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Upgrade evaluators from 2024-10-10-202633 to 2024-11-12-161156

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1090893

Change #1090892 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Upgrade orchestrator from 2024-10-15-192817 to 2024-11-13-145636

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1090892

Change #1090893 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Upgrade evaluators from 2024-10-10-202633 to 2024-11-12-161156

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1090893

Change #1115032 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cory Massaro; author: Cory Massaro):

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Upgrade orchestrator from version: 2025-01-22-203140 to 2025-01-28-144249

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1115032

Change #1115032 abandoned by Cory Massaro:

[operations/deployment-charts@master] wikifunctions: Upgrade orchestrator from version: 2025-01-22-203140 to 2025-01-28-144249

Reason:

already done

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1115032

MaryMunyoki raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.

It is problematic if we fully disabling kr terms in Wikidata before T385195: Redirect krwiki to kncwiki is resolved (see T333765 for a previous case).