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Hello,

The message Setlabeldescriptionaliases-summary on the Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases page is not available for translation on TranslateWiki: "You may have reached this special page because the item you tried to edit wasn't fully loaded for label/description edits to work there."

Since 2019, there have been several requests to translate this sentence into various languages. Could you please add it to the "Wikibase - Repo - User interface" translation group?

Regards. —Eihel

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The page has two summary messages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases?uselang=qqx

  • wikibase-setlabeldescriptionaliases-summary (no matches in code search)
  • setlabeldescriptionaliases-summary (no matches in code search, automatically used by mw core if exists)

Latter has custom override on Wikidata
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Setlabeldescriptionaliases-summary&action=history

Product decision:

  • Should this be part of Wikibase defaults? If so it should be added to the json files
  • Should this only be for Wikidata? If so, it should be added to WikimediaMessages
  • Should it not be there or decided by the community? If so, leave or delete the local customization

Hello

However, all the other messages on the Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases (qqx) page are in the code (mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase/+/refs/heads/master/repo/i18n/en.json, look for setlabeldescriptionaliases and the others). Why wouldn't the message I'm proposing be there?

I can try to provide some answers:

  • It can be found by default (due to the complexity of other Wikibases).
  • This section is not found in other projects, so it's reserved for Wikidata. It needs to be added to WikimediaMessages; otherwise, the community cannot translate this section, as requested.
  • The majority of the community wouldn't understand and would make a biased decision. The existence of messages in other languages ​​locally means that it's missing from TranslateWiki.