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As long as mo.wikipedia.org exists, this code is not going to be removed. If you are thinking of requesting that wiki to be closed, you should make such a request on meta.wikimedia.org. Until then, this request is INVALID here.

Thanks Siebrand, I see there is already a lot of buzz there.

mo is not listed in LanguageCode::$deprecatedLanguageCodeMapping for some reason. That setting is used in some places to automatically migrate deprecated codes to new ones.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry has for the deprecated language code mo the following entry:

Type: language
Subtag: mo
Description: Moldavian
Description: Moldovan
Added: 2005-10-16
Deprecated: 2008-11-22
Preferred-Value: ro
Suppress-Script: Latn

The Suppress-Script: Latn indicates that the language is normally in Latin script.

The messages in mo.json are all in Cyrillic script. I guess that the messages are Romanian/Moldavian/Moldovan (ro) but with Cyrillic script. Therefore the right language code should be ro-Cyrl or maybe ro-Cyrl-MD.

Adding T2209 as parent task because the current language code mo generates an HTML validation warning:

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediawiki.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3ASpecialPages%3Fuselang%3Dmo

Warning: Potentially bad value mo for attribute lang on element html: The language subtag mo is deprecated. Use ro instead.

Change 397999 had a related patch set uploaded (by Fomafix; owner: Fomafix):
[mediawiki/core@master] Rename deprecated language code 'mo' to 'ro-cyrl'

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/397999

Should we wait for some days? It seems @Cybernenea11 does contributed in this month.

Yes, I was contributing and will continue to contribute to the Moldavian language till the very end despite having very little free time. Because my language is Moldavian Cyrillic and not Romanian Latin. Thank you very mutch and sorry my poor English, Peace.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry defines

%%
Type: language
Subtag: mo
Description: Moldavian
Description: Moldovan
Added: 2005-10-16
Deprecated: 2008-11-22
Preferred-Value: ro
Suppress-Script: Latn
%%

and

%%
Type: language
Subtag: ro
Description: Romanian
Description: Moldavian
Description: Moldovan
Added: 2005-10-16
Suppress-Script: Latn
%%

This means that the language code ro stands for Romanian and for Moldavian.

@Fomafix feel free to remove message translations of Project-localized-name-mowiki, Project-localized-name-mowiktionary, Project-localized-name-alswiktionary, Project-localized-name-alswikibooks, Project-localized-name-alswikiquote and Search-interwiki-results-mowiki first

@Cybernenea11 I think what fomafix is doing, is try to rename mo localisation to ro-cyrl, but not to simply call it as "Romanian (Cyrillic)", instead to keep naming Moldovan (Cyrillic).

Don't surprise, there's a precedent that about "nl-be": In theory it looks like "Belgian Dutch", but de facto it's called "Flemish/Vlaams" to make Original Dutch people not confused.

But I'm kindly not sure if @Strainu agrees such solution or not.

@Liuxinyu970226 Well, I understand that, but I think the Romanian community will be unhappy with that decision, because they can't accept the fact that there are people who still use script known as Moldavian Cyrillic. In this case the best solution is to keep Moldavian Cyrillic script separated by having "mo" language code. "mo" code was created for a reason and should not have been deprecated without a detailed study of the problem. 10 years ago, the ISO staff made a big mistake and created a situation where two communities cannot coexist on one language code.

Sorry my poor English. Love you all. Peace.

When the ISO staff made a mistake then it should be fixed there.

Is there a way to know if there are any active wikis using this translation? At the very least, can we check how many users currently use this interface language on any Wikimedia wiki? Without those datapoints, it's hard to see if the effort (and drama, TBH) associated with maintaining this translation is worth it.

@Fomafix Ten years ago, very few people in Moldova had the Internet and knew about Wikipedia, ISO and stuff like that. How this mistake can be fixed now?

Pinging @Baba_Tabita for answer of question that @Cybernenea11 asked above (because that "guy" suggested things about Sakizaya)

@Liuxinyu970226 I don't know how to answer @Cybernenea11 's question. Sorry!

In T18889#3989074, @Strainu wrote:

Is there a way to know if there are any active wikis using this translation? At the very least, can we check how many users currently use this interface language on any Wikimedia wiki? Without those datapoints, it's hard to see if the effort (and drama, TBH) associated with maintaining this translation is worth it.

Looks like nothing, as I've checked https://wikiapiary.com/w/index.php?title=Category:Moldovan, it's empty now
Oh no, https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Category:%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%8D says that Neciclopedia is using mo.

Change 397999 abandoned by Fomafix:
Rename deprecated language code 'mo' to 'ro-cyrl'

Reason:
The problem failed HTML validation because of the deprecated language code 'mo' in the HTML lang attribute is fixed thought https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/442200 by mapping 'mo' to 'ro-MD' in LanguageCode::bcp47( 'mo' ).

Adding the script subtag 'Cyrl' is tracked in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/445887.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/397999