Nonexistent language "s" causes fatal error when passed as parameter (uselang=s or wpUserLanguage=s)
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	• Tbayer
	Mar 30 2013, 1:01 AM

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Examples:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NoticeTemplate/view?template=FDCpropreview20132v2&wpUserLanguage=s causes a "Wikimedia Foundation Error" with the following message":

"PHP fatal error in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.21wmf12/includes/cache/MessageCache.php line 630:
Call to undefined method languages::getCode()"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?uselang=s yields a page with the following text:

[6855416c] 2013-03-30 01:00:28: Fatal exception of type MWException

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:29 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Internationalization.

• bzimport set Reference to bz46710.

• Tbayer created this task.Mar 30 2013, 1:01 AM

Oh. Hmm. Should we prohibit one letter language codes?

FWIW, other one-letter codes (e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?uselang=t ) don't seem to provoke this error.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/57273

Nonexistent language "s" causes fatal error when passed as parameter (uselang=s or wpUserLanguage=s)Closed, ResolvedPublicActions

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Nonexistent language "s" causes fatal error when passed as parameter (uselang=s or wpUserLanguage=s)
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