Thanks for taking the time to report this!

Where exactly should this be changed?

stevenliuyi wrote:

I agree to use the more specific tags, because it's clearer for people to see the relation and difference between, say, "zh-hans" and "zh-hans-cn". Currently people are likely to be confused about the relation between "zh-hans" and "zh-cn".

Besides, according to the current BCP 47 (RFC 5646) actually "zh-hans-cn" should be "cmn-hans-cn" or "zh-cmn-hans-cn" since it's only used for Mandarin Chinese, but nonetheless I think we can keep the usual, customary way to use "zh" instead of "cmn".

btw. Changing language codes being used as variant codes is difficult due to various -{zh-cn:XXX;zh-tw:YYY;}- syntax scattered on pages.

It's still unclear to me *where* this can be seen or *where* this should be changed, which makes this report not actionable...
Could somebody enlighten me, please? :)

fanchy, stevenliuyi: could you please answer comment 4?

li3939108 wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)

It's still unclear to me *where* this can be seen or *where* this should be
changed, which makes this report not actionable...
Could somebody enlighten me, please? :)

I think it should be the "user preferences". Other components use these tags because they are in the "user preferences".

In [[Special:WantedCategories]] on it.wiki there are some categories with these new names. Does it mean that the "old" categories should be moved to the new ones? (e.g. "Utenti zh-CN" to "Utenti zh-Hans-CN‏‎")

In T51274#5253106, @Superchilum wrote:

In [[Special:WantedCategories]] on it.wiki there are some categories with these new names. Does it mean that the "old" categories should be moved to the new ones? (e.g. "Utenti zh-CN" to "Utenti zh-Hans-CN‏‎")

This task is about how the MediaWiki software represents the names of interface display languages in user preferences, not about categories.

However, those categories are created by MediaWiki-extensions-Babel user boxes. Yes, you should probably rename your categories.

This task is about how the MediaWiki software represents the names of interface display languages in user preferences, not about categories.

However, those categories are created by MediaWiki-extensions-Babel user boxes. Yes, you should probably rename your categories.

Well, the categories have the names of interface display languages, so I think this is the appropriate task :-) my point is: "MediaWiki-extensions-Babel" creates those categories because those names are correct and official? As we can see, it is not just a problem of it.wiki, so my point was: who decides which names are correct and where?

Ok, but on Mediawiki why should we keep many forms, instead of keeping just one? I mean, IETF and UN decide that "zh-hant-tw" is correct and "zh-tw" is not, so Mediawiki modifies the babel accordingly... but it should also change the old forms to new ones, shouldn't it? (not the babel, of course, but wiki editors)