Language converter in external links change (affects languages: zh, uz, tg, sr, shi, ku, kk, iu and gan) - Wikitech-ambassadors

13 Nov 2017

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://-{zh-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.