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Localize GlobalContributions and IPContributions for Japanese
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As a Japanese speaker, I'd like to request that the following special page aliases be added:

/** Japanese (日本語) */
$specialPageAliases['ja'] = [
	'GlobalContributions' => [ 'グローバル投稿記録' ],
	'IPContributions' => [ 'IP投稿記録' ],
];

BTW, Investigate and InvestigateBlock are a bit complicated. These would be translated as 調査 and 調査ブロック respectively, because the Japanese word for "investigation" is "調査 (chōsa)", which is already used in the aliases for CheckUser and CheckUserLog:

/** Japanese (日本語) */
$specialPageAliases['ja'] = [
	'CheckUser' => [ 'チェックユーザー', 'チェックユーザ', '利用者調査' ],
	'CheckUserLog' => [ 'チェックユーザー記録', '利用者調査記録' ],
];

Does anyone know of any previous cases where existing alaises were removed in some way? 利用者調査, which is an alias for CheckUser literally meaning "user investigation", was good before the introduction of Special:Investigate, but now we’re facing a naming conflict.

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Dragoniez renamed this task from Add special page aliases for Japanese to Localize GlobalContributions and IPContributions for Japanese.Oct 12 2025, 5:16 AM

Change #1195397 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dragoniez; author: Dragoniez):

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Localize GlobalContributions and IPContributions for Japanese

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1195397

Change #1195397 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Localize GlobalContributions and IPContributions for Japanese

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1195397

BTW, Investigate and InvestigateBlock are a bit complicated. […]

Should we open up a separate task for these localizations to be discussed?

BTW, Investigate and InvestigateBlock are a bit complicated. […]

Should we open up a separate task for these localizations to be discussed?

Yeah, I think it would be good to do so.

I would note that changing the alias doesn't carry any other risk than just existing links to the alias of the special page going to a different place. If that's okay, then it should be fine to make the change