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Remove 'CA' namespace alias in maiwiki
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In T125801: Enable namespace aliases on Maithili Wikipedia (maiwiki) a 'CA' namespace alias is added to maiwiki. But it conflicts with language code. So it should be removed.

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Has this been discussed with the community at all?

Change #1031533 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamrimmer; author: Dreamrimmer):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] maiwiki: Remove 'CA' namespace alias

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1031533

Per recent changes this wiki has hardly any community to speak of anyway, and the namespace alias doesn't seem to be used per search

I dislike this sort of forced action on principle, but I guess in practice it is reasonable.

Assuming I’m not doing the search wrong, it looks like the namespace alias is unused on the wiki:

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(Note that an alternative search using the localized namespace name yields plenty of results, so I think the search is at least not totally broken in principle.r

Pfft, and I just realized I duplicated @Pppery’s work there 🤦

let’s call it a successful application of the two-person rule ;)

Change #1031533 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] maiwiki: Remove 'CA' namespace alias

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1031533

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-26T13:17:46Z] <logmsgbot> lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002 Started scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1049667|Meta-Wiki: restrict unfuzzy rights to autoconfirmed (T368416)]], [[gerrit:1031533|maiwiki: Remove 'CA' namespace alias (T363667)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-26T13:20:20Z] <logmsgbot> lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002 lucaswerkmeister-wmde, dreamrimmer: Backport for [[gerrit:1049667|Meta-Wiki: restrict unfuzzy rights to autoconfirmed (T368416)]], [[gerrit:1031533|maiwiki: Remove 'CA' namespace alias (T363667)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-26T13:28:37Z] <logmsgbot> lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002 Finished scap: Backport for [[gerrit:1049667|Meta-Wiki: restrict unfuzzy rights to autoconfirmed (T368416)]], [[gerrit:1031533|maiwiki: Remove 'CA' namespace alias (T363667)]] (duration: 10m 50s)

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-06-26T13:30:15Z] <Lucas_WMDE> lucaswerkmeister-wmde@deploy1002 /srv/mediawiki-staging (master $ u=) $ mwscript-k8s namespaceDupes maiwiki -- --fix # T363667, 0 pages/links to fix, i.e. no-op