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SpecialPreferencesPage: Use Language Select Widget
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affected pages

  1. Special:Preferences
  2. Special:GlobalPreferences

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hueitan moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the LPL Essential (FY2025-26 Q3&4) board.
hueitan set the point value for this task to 2.

Change #1230707 had a related patch set uploaded (by Huei Tan; author: Huei Tan):

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialPreferences: Use Language Select Widget in language field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1230707

Nikerabbit triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 2 2026, 7:28 AM

Change #1230707 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialPreferences: Use Language Select Widget in language field

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1230707

Nikerabbit moved this task from Need QA to Done on the LPL Essential (FY2025-26 Q3&4) board.
Nikerabbit subscribed.

Minor usability issue: If I type a language name, but don't explicitly select it from the list, there is no indication that the selection is invalid. Will file a task for that.

Nikerabbit changed the point value for this task from 2 to 4.
Nikerabbit moved this task from Done to Ready for dev on the LPL Essential (FY2025-26 Q3&4) board.

Change #1258646 had a related patch set uploaded (by Huei Tan; author: Huei Tan):

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialPreferences: Use Language Select Widget in language and variant fields

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1258646

Nikerabbit lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Apr 8 2026, 11:23 AM

Change #1258646 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialPreferences: Use Language Select Widget in language and variant fields

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1258646