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MediaWiki:Uploadtext is not a content language message despite having per wiki instructions
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Description

on MediaWiki wiki "Mediawiki:Uploadtext" should display it's message on "Special:Upload", It's not - currently displaying the default en message.

Working on test2, which is also running 1.22wmf1.

mw wiki:

test2:


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: normal

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p858snake: Is there any indication that this is a MediaWiki software code regression, and not a server misconfiguration ("Wikimedia" product in Bugzilla)? I was looking at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload to compare...

p858snake: Is there any indication that this is a MediaWiki software code
regression, and not a server misconfiguration ("Wikimedia" product in
Bugzilla)? I was looking at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload to
compare...

p858snake: ping? Can you answer comment 1 please?

Andre, I think this is a MediaWiki software issue.

For me this text only shows if I switch my user language to en. The text should show on en-GB but it doesn't...

This mostly worksforme.

For me this text only shows if I switch my user language to en. The text
should
show on en-GB but it doesn't...

I can confirm that too. uploadtext is a user language message. Although logically it seems like it should be a content language message. (Changing that would break all the uselang hacks that people use though).

I don't think this behaviour is new.