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Alias -ise endings to -ize endings for special page names (uncategorised to uncategorized)
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Feature summary:

There are some special pages containing the American English spelling uncategorized. The British English spelling uncategorised should be available as an alternative:

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise,_-ize_(-isation,_-ization) for background.

Use case(s):

A user may spell the name of the special page in British English.

Good first task

There's only a minor change required here to languages / messages / MessagesEn.php to add aliases.

	'Uncategorizedcategories'    => [ 'UncategorizedCategories' ],
	'Uncategorizedimages'        => [ 'UncategorizedFiles', 'UncategorizedImages' ],
	'Uncategorizedpages'         => [ 'UncategorizedPages' ],
	'Uncategorizedtemplates'     => [ 'UncategorizedTemplates' ],

Currently at lines 544 to 547 to:

	'Uncategorizedcategories'    => [ 'UncategorizedCategories', 'UncategorisedCategories' ],
	'Uncategorizedimages'        => [ 'UncategorizedFiles', 'UncategorizedImages', 'UncategorisedFiles', 'UncategorisedImages' ],
	'Uncategorizedpages'         => [ 'UncategorizedPages', 'UncategorisedPages' ], 
	'Uncategorizedtemplates'     => [ 'UncategorizedTemplates', 'UncategorisedTemplates' ],

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Bugreporter2 created this task.Tue, May 19, 3:35 AM
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Aklapper edited projects, added: MediaWiki-General; removed: good first task.Tue, May 19, 7:10 AM

Removing good first task because I'd say this can be achieved by installing and setting up user languages like British English, if I remember correctly.

Aklapper awarded a token.Tue, May 19, 7:10 AM
Pppery edited projects, added: MediaWiki-Special-pages; removed: MediaWiki-General.Tue, May 19, 3:33 PM
Pppery moved this task from To triage to Multiple special pages on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.
Bugreporter subscribed.Tue, May 19, 6:04 PM
In T426696#11934593, @Aklapper wrote:

Removing good first task because I'd say this can be achieved by installing and setting up user languages like British English, if I remember correctly.

Alternatively all British English special page name can be added as alias, since usage of British English as site language is less common.

Bugreporter2 added a comment.Wed, May 20, 4:42 AM

In International English, there is broad tolerance of orthographic differences, i.e. spelling isn't considered that important. But MediaWiki isn't written in en-us, it's written in English (en). This is similar to how Wikipedia is tolerant of regional spelling differences.

In T426696#11934593, @Aklapper wrote:

Removing good first task because I'd say this can be achieved by installing and setting up user languages like British English, if I remember correctly.

That sounds like a very complicated way of achieving this, and violates the principle that MediaWiki should work well out of the box without customisations.

Bugreporter2 added a comment.Wed, May 20, 12:26 PM
In T426696#11934593, @Aklapper wrote:

Removing good first task because I'd say this can be achieved by installing and setting up user languages like British English, if I remember correctly.

And on second thoughts, I don't think you are remembering correctly, but I think I can understand where you've gone astray:

Setting language to British English does change the system message that provides the heading: See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedCategories&uselang=en-gb

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But it only changes this.

So, if you change the name of the page in the URL (ize → ise), then it doesn't work: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UncategorisedCategories&uselang=en-gb
Even with language set in Special:Preferences to en-gb.

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If anything, this is a reason for implementing the change I suggested.

Nintendofan885 subscribed.Mon, May 25, 2:35 PM
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