I can't believe in 1.14 that you have now removed the ability for zh-tw users to make links to e.g., Special Pages using their zh-tw characters.
To link to e.g., [[Special:Specialpages]], [[特殊:特殊頁面]] can no longer be used, as now only this [[特殊:特殊页面]] simplified Chinese link works.
The problem is, there is hardly anyone in the country (Taiwan) who has the software configuration, any interest, nor often knowledge of even how to read some simplified characters.
Sure, on the surface all is zh-tw, but the links are all loaded with Simplified Chinese: $ for i in --dump --source; do lynx $i http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/%7C iconv -f utf8 -t big5|wc -l; done 119 iconv: illegal input sequence at position 5412 79
So now all one can use is [[{{#Special:Specialpages}}|{{ns:special}}:{{int:specialpages}}]]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17681 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17680 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17712
jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
I can't believe in 1.14 that you have now removed the ability for zh-tw users to make links to e.g., Special Pages using their zh-tw characters.
I can most certainly believe it. It's not like the messages files are reviewed before they're released.
Localised special page names were added to zh-hans shortly before the branch point:
No similar list was added for zh-hant or zh-tw, so the simplified list is used for all of them. There was no localised $specialPageAliases for zh-* in 1.13.0 so it seems likely that the English names were used at that time.
It would be helpful if you could provide a translation for these special page names into Traditional Chinese. This translation can be included in 1.14.1.
-- Tim Starling
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