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-- deb tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian Wolff bwolff@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:48 PM Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Language converter in external links change (affects languages: zh, uz, tg, sr, shi, ku, kk, iu and gan) To: wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org

Hi everyone.

Later today, I intend to make a change to the language converter system. The language converter system is used in a couple languages, most notably zh and sr, to interpret -{ in wikisyntax. Previously, -{ }- syntax would work inside external links. Now you must put it outside external links.

For example, previously you could do:

[http://-%7Bzh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- mylink]

now you must do:

-{zh-cn: [http://foo.com mylink] ; zh-hk: [http://bar.com mylink] ; zh-tw:[http://baz.com my link] }-

I'm hopeful this change will not be too disruptive. If you encounter any new weird behaviour with language converter please let me know.

-- Brian Wolff

p.s. List of probably affected pages: * http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/sr.txt * http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/zh.txt * http://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/langconv/zhwiktionary.txt

I don't believe anything outside of serbian wikipedia, chinese wikipedia, and chinese wiktionary will be affected.

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