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Request to create a namespace for Crimean Tatar Wikipedia
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Dear Users,

The Crimean Tatar language has a different variant spoken in Romania. We would like to write articles also in that variant. Therefore we would like to have a namespace "R:" (R is for Rumaniye), to create articles in that namespace.

Discussions in Wikipedia: https://crh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vikipediya%3AMeydan&editintro=template%3A%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83&preview=no#Support%20the%20language%20standard%20in%20Romania

Some kind of example: https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/R:d%C3%BAniya

Comment from @Tacsipacsi: «I’d probably add a real namespace: that would group these articles better, automatically capitalize titles (i.e. automatically turn R:dúniya into R:Dúniya), and could make hiding the namespace less hackish using https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaViki:Common.css (at least in browsers – as far as I know, Common.css doesn’t load in mobile apps).»

Event Timeline

Change #1198626 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bunnypranav; author: Bunnypranav):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] core-Namespaces: Add R: and R_talk: NS for crhwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1198626

Bunnypranav changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Oct 25 2025, 12:15 PM
Bunnypranav claimed this task.

@Zolgoyo In the future, please always follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes when requesting such site configuration changes. Thanks!

@Aklapper Thanks for the advice. I will try to be more careful next time.

Change #1198626 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] core-Namespaces: Add R: and R_talk: NS for crhwiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1198626

This is deployed but needs a namespaceDupes.php run. I have asked xSavitar on IRC for it, so please wait before closing.

@Bunnypranav Thanks for doing this job! :D

My pleasure :)

@DonAlessandro Do you have knowledge? Can you do it?

could make hiding the namespace less hackish using https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaViki:Common.css (at least in browsers – as far as I know, Common.css doesn’t load in mobile apps).

I cannot actually do it, but what I’ve had in mind is

body.ns-104 .mw-page-title-namespace,
body.ns-104 .mw-page-title-separator {
	display: none;
}

However, on a second thought, I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to hide it; it could create confusion. Maybe instead of display: none, you could use opacity: 0.5 similarly to what Incubator does with the wiki prefixes.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-10-31T10:27:22Z] <taavi@deploy2002> mwscript-k8s job started: namespaceDupes.php --wiki=crhwiki '--add-prefix=BROKEN ' --fix # T408284

Thanks taavi! The existing pages are now fixed, closing.

There are two duplicate pages that need to be handled manually on-wiki: https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsus:T%C3%BCmSayfalar/R:BROKEN

@mfossati: For future refrence, please do not deploy namespace changes without running namespaceDupes immediately afterwards, since that will leave some pages on the wiki inaccessible. (I've now done so.)

There are two duplicate pages that need to be handled manually on-wiki: https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsus:T%C3%BCmSayfalar/R:BROKEN

I assume this was done as the new replacement pages were created with the same names as the old pages before this script was run, @Zolgoyo please delete/merge these pages as applicable.

@mfossati: For future refrence, please do not deploy namespace changes without running namespaceDupes immediately afterwards, since that will leave some pages on the wiki inaccessible. (I've now done so.)

Thanks for the heads-up. FYI @Bunnypranav 's config patch was scheduled to be deployed during yesterday's UTC afternoon window, but no expected deployer was there. Since I had also scheduled a few patches of my team in the same window and happen to have deployment rights, I've just offered to help.