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Make MediaWiki:wikilambda-abstractwiki-sidebar-projectchat and MediaWiki:wikilambda-abstractwiki-sidebar-createarticle translatable
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See https://abstract.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar

Both texts that are used in the sidebar should be available for translation to allow a better localization.

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Change #1295689 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jon Harald Søby; author: Jon Harald Søby):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Add abstractwiki sidebar links for translation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295689

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Removing tag as this is not actionable for translatewiki.net

Change #1295689 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages@master] Add abstractwiki sidebar links for translation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1295689

Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Jun 1 2026, 5:22 PM
Jdforrester-WMF assigned this task to jhsoby.
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This'll ship in this week's train; then we need to switch over the on-wiki sidebar to use the new messages.

Probably https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg if it is used in the sidebar (is it just me or is the config name backwards?).

Change #1300858 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; author: Jforrester):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [abstractwiki] Set wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for sidebar messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1300858

Change #1300858 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] [abstractwiki] Set wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for sidebar messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1300858

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-15T13:11:56Z] <jforrester@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1293173|Configure wgOAuthAutoApprove['protocols'] (T412542 T426614)]], [[gerrit:rEMFR13008731d921|jawiki: remove four rights from the eliminator group (T428942)]], [[gerrit:1301401|Deploy PRV to 6 wikis (T429038)]], [[gerrit:1300858|[abstractwiki] Set wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for sidebar messages (T427730)]], [[gerrit:1300872|abstractwiki: Temporary config fo

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-15T13:13:42Z] <jforrester@deploy1003> arlolra, matmarex, jforrester, dragoniez: Backport for [[gerrit:1293173|Configure wgOAuthAutoApprove['protocols'] (T412542 T426614)]], [[gerrit:rEMFR13008731d921|jawiki: remove four rights from the eliminator group (T428942)]], [[gerrit:1301401|Deploy PRV to 6 wikis (T429038)]], [[gerrit:1300858|[abstractwiki] Set wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for sidebar messages (T427730)]], [[gerrit:1300872|abstractwiki: Te

Confirmed that with the wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg set it works. Thank you!

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2026-06-15T13:22:06Z] <jforrester@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1293173|Configure wgOAuthAutoApprove['protocols'] (T412542 T426614)]], [[gerrit:rEMFR13008731d921|jawiki: remove four rights from the eliminator group (T428942)]], [[gerrit:1301401|Deploy PRV to 6 wikis (T429038)]], [[gerrit:1300858|[abstractwiki] Set wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg for sidebar messages (T427730)]], [[gerrit:1300872|abstractwiki: Temporary config f