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Thu, Mar 2

Mahir256 added a comment to T258391: Lemma not shown when linking senses unless the sense has a definition in the current language.

I am here just to second the aforementioned concerns and would support a format that merely displays any gloss, rather than give up, if neither my interface language nor any in its fallback chain are present on a sense.

Thu, Mar 2, 4:56 AM · Wikidata, Wikidata Lexicographical data

Feb 13 2023

Mahir256 added a comment to T302058: Add wikibase:identifiers to RDF representation of lexemes.

As there are both form identifiers and sense identifiers, having wikidata:identifiers for forms and senses would be useful, and as there are around 12.1 million forms and around 300,000 senses, I am willing to supplement Nikki's offer by removing 6.7 million more unnecessary triples from a variety of places.

Feb 13 2023, 5:09 PM · Wikidata Dev Team, Wikidata, Wikidata-Query-Service, Wikidata Lexicographical data

Feb 8 2023

valerio.bozzolan awarded T303677: Automatically generate descriptions for items based on their P31 (instance of) values a Stroopwafel token.
Feb 8 2023, 8:23 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata

Jan 11 2023

Moebeus awarded T303677: Automatically generate descriptions for items based on their P31 (instance of) values a Like token.
Jan 11 2023, 12:09 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata

Nov 11 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T322947: Entering a lemma in Devanagari script on Special:NewLexeme does not work anymore.

This may be related to UniversalLanguageSelector (whose Hindi Transliteration input method was used to type the word in question).

Nov 11 2022, 8:23 PM · Wikidata, Special:NewLexeme revival, Wikidata Lexicographical data

Oct 27 2022

Mahir256 reopened T319125: Add monolingual and lexeme language codes xbm (Middle Breton), obt (Old Breton) as "In Progress".

This task asked for lexeme support as well and T320889 hasn't happened yet.

Oct 27 2022, 12:47 PM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.8; 2022-10-31), Language codes, Wikidata

Oct 16 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T320887: Language codes that are explicitly not allowed for monolingual text should also not be allowed for lexemes.

cf. the approved T282512 and the as-yet-unapproved T286239

Oct 16 2022, 12:31 PM · Wikidata, Wikidata Lexicographical data

Oct 12 2022

Mahir256 awarded T320643: Support ircs protocol for URLs a Like token.
Oct 12 2022, 2:34 PM · Wikidata Dev Team (Sprint-∞), MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.6; 2022-10-17), patch-welcome, good first task, Wikidata

Sep 8 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T317193: Add language codes for isiNdebele.

T209282 and T284882 are the reasons that nso must be specified manually; it is not about any lack of support within WikibaseLexeme or elsewhere.

Sep 8 2022, 2:59 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team, Abstract Wikipedia NLG, MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.6; 2022-10-17), Wikidata, Language codes

Sep 7 2022

Mahir256 renamed T317230: Resolve Z18s, Z9s, and Z7s Which Are Not at the Top Level of an Argument from Resolve Z18s, Z9s, and Z7s Which Are Not at the Top Level of an Argument to Resolve Z18s, Z9s, and Z7s Which Are Not at the Top Level of an Argument.
Sep 7 2022, 9:37 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling), function-orchestrator

Aug 30 2022

Mahir256 renamed T315436: [BUG] no-fallback message not showing from When a ZObject doesn't have a label in my language or any of its fallbacks (also no English), show the first label stored to When a ZObject doesn't have a label in my language or any of its fallbacks (also no English), show the first label stored.
Aug 30 2022, 9:09 PM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.2; 2022-09-19), WikiLambda, Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling)
Mahir256 renamed T296423: WikiLambda Vue front-end should debounce publish requests (clicks on the Save/Publish button; disable the button once request is in-flight?) from AW Vue front-end should debounce publish requests (clicks on the Save/Publish button; disable the button once request is in-flight?). to AW Vue front-end should debounce publish requests (clicks on the Save/Publish button; disable the button once request is in-flight?).
Aug 30 2022, 1:28 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team, WikiLambda

Aug 22 2022

Mahir256 renamed T314655: The front-end doesn't support selecting a type that's returned by a function call from The front-end doesn't support selecting a type that's returned by a function call. to The front-end doesn't support selecting a type that's returned by a function call.
Aug 22 2022, 2:57 PM · Design, Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling), WikiLambda Front-end, WikiLambda

Aug 19 2022

Mahir256 merged task T290007: Add monolingual language code gil into T241424: Add monolingual language code gil.
Aug 19 2022, 6:47 PM · patch-welcome, Language codes, Wikidata
Mahir256 merged T290007: Add monolingual language code gil into T241424: Add monolingual language code gil.
Aug 19 2022, 6:47 PM · Language codes, MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.1; 2020-07-21), Wikidata-Campsite (Wikidata-Campsite-Iteration-∞ (On Hold)), MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseRepository, Wikidata
Mahir256 renamed T314875: When editing a typed list, adding and removing an element removes the typed list selector from When editing a typed list, adding and removing an element removes the typed list selector to When editing a typed list, adding and removing an element removes the typed list selector.
Aug 19 2022, 5:12 PM · WikiLambda Front-end, WikiLambda, Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling)
Mahir256 renamed T315297: Deleting a function name alias label stores a "null" in the ZObject Viewer from Deleting a function name alias label stores a "null" in the ZObject Viewer. to Deleting a function name alias label stores a "null" in the ZObject Viewer.
Aug 19 2022, 5:11 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.26; 2022-08-22), Patch-For-Review, Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling)
Mahir256 renamed T315473: After deleting a label in the zobject-editor Label box component, adding a new label overwrites the last one from After deleting a label in the zobject-editor Label box component, adding a new label overwrites the last one. to After deleting a label in the zobject-editor Label box component, adding a new label overwrites the last one.
Aug 19 2022, 5:11 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.26; 2022-08-22), WikiLambda, WikiLambda Front-end, Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling)
Mahir256 renamed T315087: Changes to input labels in function editor are not reflected in diagram until another input is added from Changes to input labels in function editor are not reflected in diagram until another input is added. to Changes to input labels in function editor are not reflected in diagram until another input is added.
Aug 19 2022, 5:11 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.26; 2022-08-22), Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling)
Mahir256 renamed T315666: Language selector on argument labels is broken from Language selector on argument labels is broken. to Language selector on argument labels is broken.
Aug 19 2022, 5:10 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.26; 2022-08-22), Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling)

Aug 16 2022

Mahir256 renamed T285586: As someone who has been identified as a member of a target audience / persona for Wikifunctions, I would like to be able to know what features and interfaces will best support me on my journey from As someone who has been identified as a member of a target audience / persona for Wikifunctions, I would like to be able to know what features and interfaces will best support me on my journey. to As someone who has been identified as a member of a target audience / persona for Wikifunctions, I would like to be able to know what features and interfaces will best support me on my journey.
Aug 16 2022, 6:51 PM · 2022 Wikimedia Google.org Fellowship, Design, Abstract Wikipedia team
Mahir256 renamed T285689: As a member of one of Wikifunction's target communities, I want the outcomes of Wikifunctions to be desirable for me, so that I can benefit from Wikifunctions from As a member of one of Wikifunction's target communities, I want the outcomes of Wikifunctions to be desirable for me, so that I can benefit from Wikifunctions. to As a member of one of Wikifunction's target communities, I want the outcomes of Wikifunctions to be desirable for me, so that I can benefit from Wikifunctions.
Aug 16 2022, 6:51 PM · 2022 Wikimedia Google.org Fellowship, Design, Abstract Wikipedia team, Epic

Aug 3 2022

Mahir256 moved T312904: Add monolingual language code ser from Backlog to Wikidata (monolingual text) on the Language codes board.
Aug 3 2022, 5:32 PM · Wikidata Dev Team, Language codes, Wikidata
Mahir256 moved T311666: Add item termbox label, lexeme label, and monolingual text code support for ess from Backlog to Wikidata (lexemes + monolingual text) on the Language codes board.
Aug 3 2022, 5:32 PM · Wikidata Lexicographical data, Language codes, Wikidata
Mahir256 moved T313782: Add item termbox label, lexeme label, and monolingual text code support for bal from Backlog to Wikidata (lexemes + monolingual text) on the Language codes board.
Aug 3 2022, 5:31 PM · Wikidata Lexicographical data, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 moved T314458: Add item termbox label, lexeme label, and monolingual text code support for trw from Backlog to Wikidata (lexemes + monolingual text) on the Language codes board.
Aug 3 2022, 5:31 PM · Wikidata Lexicographical data, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 moved T314459: Add item termbox label, lexeme label, and monolingual text code support for bha from Backlog to Wikidata (lexemes + monolingual text) on the Language codes board.
Aug 3 2022, 5:31 PM · Wikidata, Wikidata Lexicographical data, Language codes

Jun 22 2022

Mahir256 attached a referenced file: F35265441: 6A219C01-C20B-48B2-ACE4-A59A8ECC6AB9.png.
Jun 22 2022, 8:47 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.17; 2022-06-20), Patch-For-Review, Readers-Web-Backlog (Needs Prioritization (Tech)), Vector (legacy skin)
Mahir256 added a comment to T311119: All Wikimedia projects other than Wikipedia, Test Wikipedia, and Wikinews extremely zoomed out while using Vector Skin on iPad..

Here's an example of this phenomenon on iOS 12.5:

Jun 22 2022, 7:31 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.17; 2022-06-20), Patch-For-Review, Readers-Web-Backlog (Needs Prioritization (Tech)), Vector (legacy skin)

May 26 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T309317: Investigate why the function editor, object editor, function viewer, and object viewer are all broken on https://wikifunctions.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Z10005.

(Perhaps being tired of my complaints raised in another forum led to the dearth of detail in the initial task description, but...)

  • What is broken?

When I click "edit source" on that page, and I type "Z10004" into the dropdown next to "value" for the field whose label is "catena" and save, the field's type changes from "Reference^(String)" to "Reference^(Reference)", rather than to "Reference^(Catena)" as I would expect.

  • Is there any indication it is specific to Beta cluster? (i.e. does the same workflow work as expected in a dev environment?)

The type creation interface on notwikilambda.toolforge.org is broken, since on adding fields to a type in the CreateZObject page there I am not prompted to name these fields nor shown the ID (Z12345K2 etc.) that they would have, so I have no clue as to this point.

May 26 2022, 3:59 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling), WikiLambda
Mahir256 updated the task description for T309317: Investigate why the function editor, object editor, function viewer, and object viewer are all broken on https://wikifunctions.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Z10005.
May 26 2022, 2:26 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling), WikiLambda

May 25 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T309230: Reset password for Mahir256 on wikifunctions.beta.wmflabs.org.

tools-sgebastion-10.tools.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud:/home/mahir256/2fa-reset-request.txt should contain a link to this task.

May 25 2022, 5:02 PM · Trust-and-Safety
Mahir256 created T309230: Reset password for Mahir256 on wikifunctions.beta.wmflabs.org.
May 25 2022, 5:01 PM · Trust-and-Safety

May 21 2022

Mahir256 renamed T308945: Remove patrol rights from autoconfirmed users and create a separate user group on bnwiki from Remove patrol rights from autoconfirmed users and create an separate user group to Remove patrol rights from autoconfirmed users and create a separate user group on bnwiki.
May 21 2022, 8:19 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests, Bengali-Sites

May 19 2022

Mahir256 moved T308794: Add lexeme language code lad-hebr from Backlog to Wikidata (lexemes) on the Language codes board.
May 19 2022, 9:14 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.25; 2022-08-15), Wikidata Dev Team, Wikidata, Wikidata Lexicographical data, Language codes
Mahir256 created T308794: Add lexeme language code lad-hebr.
May 19 2022, 9:14 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.25; 2022-08-15), Wikidata Dev Team, Wikidata, Wikidata Lexicographical data, Language codes

May 9 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T307820: Prototype Abstract Wikipedia in Scribunto.

I will fully accept the first two bullet points you mentioned, and to some extent the third bullet point, but believe the fourth is somewhat limited and must take issue with the fifth.

May 9 2022, 4:20 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling), 2022 Wikimedia Google.org Fellowship

May 7 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T307820: Prototype Abstract Wikipedia in Scribunto.

Cool, sounds like you've thought about this quite a lot -- can you expand on that / do you have this written down somewhere?

May 7 2022, 1:26 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling), 2022 Wikimedia Google.org Fellowship

May 6 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T307820: Prototype Abstract Wikipedia in Scribunto.

As the person behind Ninai and Udiron, I must agree with Cory :-) . Besides, there are some facilities I believe are needed for traversing the item and lexeme RDF graph, which do not yet exist, that will make multilingual text generation more feasible in the long run.

May 6 2022, 10:26 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (Phase θ – Throttling), 2022 Wikimedia Google.org Fellowship

Apr 12 2022

Mahir256 awarded T305925: Allow senses with no glosses a Dislike token.
Apr 12 2022, 1:38 PM · Wikidata, Wikidata Lexicographical data

Apr 11 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T305858: When replacing Blazegraph, need to understand how the proprietary GAS Service is used, in order to replace it.

Yes, w.wiki/bKf (for all train lines emanating from St Pancras) and w.wiki/4xyY (for the path from Narvik to Singapore) use that service.

Apr 11 2022, 6:15 PM · Discovery-Search (Current work), Wikidata-Query-Service, Wikidata

Mar 20 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T304208: bn.wikisource.org loads by default resources from tools-static.wmflabs.org.

As this is not the first task involving the use of @Pathoschild's script, you may wish to complain to that user that people find those scripts useful enough to consider them a default staple for others.

@Mahir256: That makes no sense at all.

Let me rephrase, then: please tell that user "Would you mind re-hosting all of your scripts on Meta, rather than on wmflabs, and adjust your documentation to follow suit, given that people find those scripts so extremely useful that they enable them for everyone, even with the apparently mistaken assumption that wmflabs is a production server?"

Mar 20 2022, 4:09 PM · Bengali-Sites, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Privacy Engineering, Privacy
Mahir256 added a project to T304208: bn.wikisource.org loads by default resources from tools-static.wmflabs.org: Bengali-Sites.
Mar 20 2022, 12:34 AM · Bengali-Sites, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Privacy Engineering, Privacy
Mahir256 updated subscribers of T304208: bn.wikisource.org loads by default resources from tools-static.wmflabs.org.

As this is not the first task involving the use of @Pathoschild's script, you may wish to complain to that user that people find those scripts useful enough to consider them a default staple for others.

Mar 20 2022, 12:31 AM · Bengali-Sites, WMF-General-or-Unknown, Privacy Engineering, Privacy

Mar 17 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T304108: viwiki loads font from google for all users.

This may be substituted with the same font hosted on wmflabs's FontCDN:

Mar 17 2022, 8:29 PM · Privacy Engineering, Privacy, WMF-General-or-Unknown
Mahir256 added a project to T304107: bn.wikibooks loads fonts from third party sites: Bengali-Sites.

The two references to fonts.googleapis.com use fonts which exist on wmflabs's FontCDN and can thus be substituted accordingly:

Mar 17 2022, 8:27 PM · Bengali-Sites, Privacy Engineering, Privacy, WMF-General-or-Unknown

Mar 13 2022

Epidosis awarded T303677: Automatically generate descriptions for items based on their P31 (instance of) values a Like token.
Mar 13 2022, 9:34 AM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata
Mahir256 created T303677: Automatically generate descriptions for items based on their P31 (instance of) values.
Mar 13 2022, 5:52 AM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata

Feb 9 2022

Mahir256 added a comment to T301418: Add support for a graphical language such as Scratch or Snap! to Wikifunctions.

Is this better merged into T298633 as a general graphical-programming-language support task?

Feb 9 2022, 9:54 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team

Dec 22 2021

Mahir256 updated subscribers of T298142: Spelling variant of the Lemma - infer the spelling variant from the language.

I'd like to suggest a change to infer the spelling variants from P‌220 or P3‌05 per T284882.

Dec 22 2021, 10:27 AM · Special:NewLexeme revival (Special:NewLexeme revival - sprint 6), Wikidata, Wikidata Lexicographical data

Dec 14 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.

I am a bit scared of linking to the first page if the current page is not in the toc.

I must agree with Xover's comment regarding the provision of a next link on a main page. While attempting to provide such a link using JavaScript and the mw.Api may be possible, I do not think that it is necessarily the most efficient use of resources when loading a Wikisource page, given that each time a page is loaded the table of contents portion of an index needs to be rendered again (meaning after ProofreadPage does so once) to determine which link to add. (The alternative would be to add the next link manually to the page, which does not fully comport with the underlying motivation behind this task.)

Dec 14 2021, 5:13 AM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage

Nov 24 2021

Mahir256 reopened T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages> as "In Progress".
Nov 24 2021, 2:13 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage

Nov 22 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.

Now that we are on wmf.9, I see that for this index, with "data": "toc" set for the table of contents ("Remarks"), and without using the trick mentioned in T285610#7267935 on that index, the second chapter still does not link to the first chapter or vice versa. Is there something we need to refresh on our end for the effects of this patch to be visible?

Nov 22 2021, 6:34 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage

Nov 21 2021

Mahir256 renamed T268932: Add Bengali currency/hexadecimal numerals to pagelist from Add Bengali numerals to pagelist to Add Bengali currency/hexadecimal numerals to pagelist.
Nov 21 2021, 9:44 PM · MW-1.36-notes (1.36.0-wmf.28; 2021-01-26), Bengali-Sites, I18n, ProofreadPage
Mahir256 renamed T296135: Make the Query builder popup less intrusive from Make the Query builder popup less intrusive to Make the Query builder popup less intrusive.
Nov 21 2021, 2:46 AM · User-Noarave, Wikidata Dev Team (Sprint-∞), good first task, Wikidata Query Builder, Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Wikidata Query UI

Nov 12 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T295560: Share complex SPARQL queries in Wikidata Query Service via short URL [investigation] .

We have an as-yet unused "Query:" namespace ; perhaps it could be opened for storing queries longer than 2000 characters? (A redirection mechanism such that a visit to any page in that namespace takes you to query.wikidata.org might be useful, and there ought to be a system, similar to what is done with CSS pages, that ensures that a query is syntactically correct before it can be saved to that namespace.)

Nov 12 2021, 8:32 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, User-Michael, Wikidata

Nov 9 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T286239: Make tlh-latn and tlh-piqd a valid monolingual string language.

If we're rejecting tlh as a monolingual text code (and not as a lexeme language code), would someone like to do the honors and purge the Lexeme: namespace of Klingon lexemes?

Nov 9 2021, 5:06 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.7; 2021-11-02), Patch-For-Review, Wikidata, Language codes

Nov 7 2021

Mahir256 closed T295259: Occupations of Q5603 does not all show in query result as Invalid.

Per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format#Truthy_statements, "Truthy statement predicates have prefix wdt: with the property name (e.g. wdt:P2)" and "[I]f there is a preferred statement for property P2, then only preferred statements for P2 will be considered truthy. Otherwise, all normal-rank statements for P2 are considered truthy." As your screenshot indicates, "visual artist" is a preferred occupation statement (the little shaded up arrow on the left) and the other occupations are normal-rank statements (the little shaded dot between the two blank arrows).

Nov 7 2021, 9:25 PM · Wikidata

Oct 31 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T294159: Enable Lexeme access on first set of projects.

Would any of the early adopter projects be willing to have Lexeme access enabled while the Lua interface isn’t stable yet[...]?

I'd be interested in such a thing for bnwiktionary.

Oct 31 2021, 9:03 PM · Wikidata Lexicographical data, Wikidata, wdwb-tech, Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Oct 24 2021

Mahir256 updated Mahir256.
Oct 24 2021, 1:33 PM

Oct 23 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T294159: Enable Lexeme access on first set of projects.

I would like to propose bn.wiktionary as a test project for this, with an intended use case being the construction and display of inflection templates for nouns and verbs.

Oct 23 2021, 2:37 AM · Wikidata Lexicographical data, Wikidata, wdwb-tech, Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Sep 30 2021

William_Avery awarded T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases a Barnstar token.
Sep 30 2021, 9:50 AM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes

Sep 29 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

For those who would like a clarification,

please refrain from editing the task description while the discussion is ongoing.

this is the former part of Lucas's message

It is inappropriate to masquerade your personal opinion as the hard-won consensus that we are trying to achieve here.

and this is the latter part.

Sep 29 2021, 3:29 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 updated subscribers of T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

please refrain from editing the task description while the discussion is ongoing. It is inappropriate to masquerade your personal opinion as the hard-won consensus that we are trying to achieve here.

This message (especially the latter part) is enough of a reason to undo the changes made to the ticket since Nikki's comments were added, irrespective of what opinions I may hold of any of it (which should not be assumed as was done in the diff that stains this task). The sea lion I am removing from this ticket is also free to impugn Lucas's or Lydia's credibility or emotional strength as well.

Sep 29 2021, 3:14 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 added a comment to T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

@Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE that should have been. I removed Mahir256 as they seem to be doing nonsensical edits to subscribers.

The presence of the user I am removing—not just here, but in any other discussion forum really—has made @Nikki (and others, both actually and potentially) sufficiently uncomfortable directly opining here and in those other fora that others like myself relay their opinions here for them. Unless that user wishes to impugn the credibility or emotional strength of Nikki and those other individuals, I contend that my actions in this regard are entirely sensical.

Sep 29 2021, 2:50 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 updated subscribers of T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.
Sep 29 2021, 12:24 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 updated subscribers of T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.
Sep 29 2021, 12:24 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 updated the task description for T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.
Sep 29 2021, 12:23 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes

Sep 27 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

The following is a comment made in another forum regarding this ticket by User:Nikki, who has allowed me to repost it here after some copy-editing in good faith:

Sep 27 2021, 7:40 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 updated subscribers of T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

Why? In absence of the proposed mul language code, having the same label duplicated in all languages that use it is the expected behaviour.

Sep 27 2021, 7:31 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes

Sep 20 2021

Moebeus awarded T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases a Love token.
Sep 20 2021, 8:11 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 updated subscribers of T291380: Add vmw language code for labels.

@Amire80 @jhsoby What do you say?

Sep 20 2021, 2:05 PM · Language codes
Mahir256 moved T290857: Add monolingual language codes for Oïl languages family : Gallo language, Lorrain language from Backlog to Wikidata (monolingual text) on the Language codes board.
Sep 20 2021, 1:54 PM · Language codes, Wikidata
Mahir256 moved T291380: Add vmw language code for labels from Backlog to Wikidata (termbox languages) on the Language codes board.
Sep 20 2021, 1:54 PM · Language codes
Mahir256 added a project to T291380: Add vmw language code for labels: Language codes.
Sep 20 2021, 1:49 PM · Language codes
Mahir256 awarded T291380: Add vmw language code for labels a Like token.
Sep 20 2021, 1:48 PM · Language codes

Aug 28 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

[I]f someone wanted to add the "same" label value on a different language, should that trigger a validation error? I can imagine that would potentially disrupt bots who copy labels, but maybe that's not a bad thing if the goal is cleanup.

Yes, one of the goals is item cleanup, so such an error should be triggered.

Aug 28 2021, 1:35 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes

Aug 27 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

So, mul is kind of the right code for that in general, but it's still a special case, and I'm wondering whether it's right to use it as usual aliases and labels. Can't it be a kind of an extra field in the data model, or a property, like "multilingual name" or "universal name"? Using just a language code for this sounds like a bit of a hack that can backfire.

I'd be interested to learn of a situation in which the addition of a label in this code with the intent described would cause things to backfire.

Are any of these actually useful?

This task is not intended to answer this question; since someone has found it useful to have access to this specific string in every language, using 'mul' is a more efficient way to address that.

Wikipedia disambiguation pages are handled very badly in general on Wikidata. It requires real structure and not a language code hack.

Can you elaborate of what's not "real" about the mul code with respect to disambiguation pages? While I'm sure there's much to improve for that category of item, that's not necessarily an argument against the introduction of this code for other purposes demonstrated.

This sounds like the right behavior. What if in some language the label was different? Asking seriously.

If the label in some other language is different from the "mul" one, then there's absolutely no harm for another language to add a different label. With respect to astronomical objects, on the typical multi-labeled item, only the Bengali label (and the Malayalam one, if it exists) is different from the rest, and thus would be preserved in the presence of a "mul" code; all others, being identical to that of the "mul" code, would be eliminated. (Again, if later one of those languages needs a different label from that of the 'mul' code, it is free to add that different label, and not the same one.)

As with the galaxy, it doesn't look wrong.

See the argument re: galaxies.

Aug 27 2021, 12:31 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes

Aug 13 2021

Mahir256 renamed T288769: [Session] Join developing Knowledge Equity at Hack4OpenGLAM from [Session] Provide a descriptive title for your session to [Session] Join developing Knowledge Equity at Hack4OpenGLAM.
Aug 13 2021, 3:03 AM · Wikimania-Hackathon-2021

Aug 11 2021

Mahir256 updated the task description for T288682: Move P1343 = "Rate Your Music" to RYM release ID for releases.
Aug 11 2021, 10:47 PM · Wikidata-WikiProject-Music
Mahir256 updated the task description for T288675: Remove P31 "hit" (Q1997853) from singles, albums, etc..
Aug 11 2021, 9:54 PM · Wikidata-WikiProject-Music
Mahir256 changed the status of T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases from Stalled to Open.
Aug 11 2021, 7:10 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes

Aug 7 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T288335: Include Aghem(agq) Language support on Wikidata.

If the recent--judging from when label statistics started to note them--introductions of languages of Cameroon as languages for labels/descriptions/aliases is any indication, this request is likely for the same thing.

Aug 7 2021, 12:14 AM · Wikidata-Campsite (Team A Hearth 🏰🔥), Patch-For-Review, Language codes, Wikidata

Jul 30 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases.

While I've undone edits on the last three of Nikki's examples (since those examples are frankly quite ridiculous), I otherwise agree with what is stated in that comment.

Jul 30 2021, 3:14 AM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes

Jul 29 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T284808: Add a configuration variable that allows disabling language codes for labels, descriptions, and aliases.

I also don't think disallowed codes should be excluded from a revert, in the interest of keeping behavior consistent with how deleted items/properties are dealt with.

Jul 29 2021, 8:23 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Language codes, Wikidata
Mahir256 added a project to T287705: Gendered pronouns in README: Voice & Tone.
Jul 29 2021, 8:20 PM · Voice & Tone, Puppet, Infrastructure-Foundations

Jul 20 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T284808: Add a configuration variable that allows disabling language codes for labels, descriptions, and aliases.

is this task specifically about the termbox user interface (either the old one or the new / mobile one), or is it supposed to prevent labels, descriptions and aliases in these language codes, everywhere (including in the API, Special:SetLabel, etc.)?

Jul 20 2021, 5:16 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Language codes, Wikidata

Jul 6 2021

Mahir256 moved T286239: Make tlh-latn and tlh-piqd a valid monolingual string language from Backlog to Wikidata (monolingual text) on the Language codes board.
Jul 6 2021, 3:59 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.7; 2021-11-02), Patch-For-Review, Wikidata, Language codes
Mahir256 added projects to T286239: Make tlh-latn and tlh-piqd a valid monolingual string language: Language codes, Wikidata.
Jul 6 2021, 3:59 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.7; 2021-11-02), Patch-For-Review, Wikidata, Language codes

Jul 5 2021

Mahir256 moved T286213: Add lexeme language code "bzs" from Backlog to Wikidata (lexemes) on the Language codes board.
Jul 5 2021, 7:23 PM · Wikidata Dev Team, Language codes, Wikidata Lexicographical data, Wikidata

Jul 2 2021

Mahir256 added a watcher for Wikidata-WikiProject-Music: Mahir256.
Jul 2 2021, 4:55 PM

Jun 29 2021

Mahir256 renamed T285684: As someone who is new to creating functions, I would like to be able to start with an easy task from As someone who is new to creating functions, I would like to be able to start with an easy task. to As someone who is new to creating functions, I would like to be able to start with an easy task.
Jun 29 2021, 4:35 PM · 2022 Wikimedia Google.org Fellowship, Design, Abstract Wikipedia team, Epic
Mahir256 added a comment to T284808: Add a configuration variable that allows disabling language codes for labels, descriptions, and aliases.

Don't we already have this? I don't think we allow adding terms for simple for example? Or am I missing something?

Jun 29 2021, 2:24 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Language codes, Wikidata

Jun 28 2021

Mahir256 added a comment to T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.

Noting that no formal documentation of the behavior of concern in this task was yet provided by this task's objector, despite the assertion made that it exists:

Jun 28 2021, 6:06 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage

Jun 27 2021

Mahir256 updated subscribers of T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.

The relevant piece of logic which this task considers was introduced in this commit, three years before Wikidata's launch and thus three years before the idea of pulling in information for an index page would have been conceived. We on the Bengali Wikisource, in the interest of modernizing the functionality of our site beyond the old days of direct {{header}} use and pre-Scribunto capabilities, are trying to embrace the benefits that Wikidata provides to the extent that it can support the metadata of index pages, and this necessarily extends from the slow discontinuation of certain index fields to the integration of their replacements in main namespace pages, in addition to the sometimes semi-automatic maintenance of some other namespaces. I can accept that such an attitude as we espouse may be foreign and uncomfortable to certain Wikisourcerors, but that doesn't mean that the software—which I feel the need to assert we wish to share with those Wikisourcerors—should continue to hold other communities back (or that the effort to defend what's being requested in this task is misplaced).

Jun 27 2021, 10:40 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage
Mahir256 added a comment to T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.

Is there any particular reason why you can't add a link to the mainspace page where the work is transcluded to one of the other index fields and use a dedicated field for the QID?

We are using the "wikidata-item" field as the dedicated field for the Qid. As (implied, maybe should have been expressed better?) in the sentence following that to which you replied, a link to where the work is transcluded would have been the use for the "title" field before, but that link has been migrated to a sitelink on a Wikidata item, which can be retrieved using Lua's mw.wikibase functionality, thus making it redundant to retain it in the index page.

Jun 27 2021, 9:07 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage
Mahir256 added a comment to T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.

that would require a better definition of what the actual problem with the current behaviour is

As part of an effort to increase integration of the Bengali Wikisource with Wikidata, we have begun migrating most information within index pages that can be migrated to Wikidata items. As a result, the only free-text field in ProofreadPage that is frequently non-empty before the pagelist is the "wikidata-item" field, holding the Qid of the work's item. The "wikidata-item" field is used directly within our implementations of "Module:Header template" and "MediaWiki:Proofreadpage index template" in retrieving the migrated information for display in the appropriate places. Turning that field into a link makes processing it, even if it's merely a matter of stripping the link syntax, just a bit more complicated than it needs to be. If the information above the pagelist field is already on the Wikidata item, then adding a link to any of the fields above the pagelist becomes redundant.

and some sketch of a hypothetical better solution.

The simple fix I propose is a direct solution to the problem and to the extent I am aware of would not adversely affect most other generated headers. (I'd be interested in seeing where an adverse effect might occur, if at all.)

Jun 27 2021, 3:28 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage
Mahir256 added a comment to T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.

putting a wikilink in the উইকিউপাত্ত আইটেম field should fix it.

Yes, I'm aware that throwing in an extra link is one way to sidestep the issue, but I wonder if the underlying assumption is worth hardcoding in the extension at all.

Jun 27 2021, 12:36 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage
Mahir256 created T285610: Pages corresponding to tables of contents' second links are not provided the first link as the "prev" parameter for headers generated with <pages>.
Jun 27 2021, 2:04 AM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), ProofreadPage

Jun 18 2021

Mahir256 moved T285156: [GOAL] Add termbox language code mul to reduce redundancy in Wikidata Labels and Aliases from Backlog to Wikidata (termbox languages) on the Language codes board.
Jun 18 2021, 7:24 PM · Wikidata-Campsite, Wikidata, Language codes