Amir,
In Romanian, this kind of possible, but highly unlikely problem is called
"drob de sare" (salt stone). I'll let you use your language skills to find
out why :)
Let the community be and find their own ways to deal with the problem, if
it ever becomes a real one. If one really wants to link to the sanskrit
Wikipedia, it can do so using [[:w:sa:...]]. Bugs in Pwb can be solved if
you log them - but does Tyap has any robots today?
No need to have users in a new language write in English just because some
problems might occur in certain very particular scenarios.
My 2c,
Andrei
Pe sâmbătă, 4 iunie 2022, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> a
scris:
Hi,
I've recently discovered that namespace names may have an ambiguity with
interlanguage links: If a namespace name is the same as a language code,
using it in wikitext poses all kinds of challenges.
Actual example: In the Tyap language (code kcg), the
Wikipedia in which
was created a few days ago, the Category namespace is called
"Sa:", which
is also the language code and, hence, the interlanguage link code for
Sanskrit.
So, "Sa" is usable in wikitext, but has all
kinds of little issues. For
example, old-style non-Wikidata interlanguage links to
Sanskrit from the
Tyap Wikipedia are probably impossible. They are not very likely to be
inserted into articles, but still, it's somewhat conceivable. I also
noticed that it confuses Pywikibot in some ways. And I can imagine other
subtle bugs that it will cause.
I've asked Tyap speakers whether it's possible
to change the word for
"Category" to something else. No—they want to use
"Sa". It's legitimate not
to want to change the word for a technical reason.
So what can be done?
The editors there told me that it's OK for them to use "[[Category:" in
wikitext, but they would like to see "Sa:" in the title of category
pages.
I'm not sure that it's possible: as far as I know, the namespace name
definition in MessagesKcg.php will be used for both things, and if Visual
editor is used to add categories, it will add "[[Sa:". Bots or gadgets can
be used to replace it to "Category", but is looks like an ugly hack.
Does anyone have better ideas for a robust,
comprehensive solution?
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