Feature summary
Make it possible to set an empty list of priority languages and still enable enforcing priority languages (checking Prevent translations to languages other than the priority languages) on translatable pages in order to completely disable translating the given page. The same thing is being done for message bundles in T350652.
Use cases
Pages that shouldn’t be translated yet or anymore, for example
- Drafts that are still being polished but already have translation markup (probably added as part of the polishing)
- Announcements, press releases, mass messages etc. that have been published/delivered and should be considered frozen
- Pages that have been emptied (e.g. after being transferred to another wiki)
Benefits
Currently a similar effect can be achieved by setting the only priority language to the source language. However, this is not intuitive for the translation admin and confusing for the translator (the error message says A translation administrator decided that this page can only be translated to English – but English is the source language). Implementing for translatable pages what has already been implemented for message bundles would result in a cleaner and more uniform solution.
