Babel points to empty "Category:Babel - Users by language"
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	Qgil
	Jan 17 2014, 6:15 AM

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The Babel template includes a link to

Category:Babel_-_Users_by_language

However, such category is empty -- click the link at the bottom of the Babel box at http://espiral.org/wiki/User:QuimGil

A category page with links to the main category of each language would be expected instead.

For what is worth I can see a couple of diferences between my stock installation and what meta.wikimedia.org and mediawiki.org have:

these sites point both to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Users_by_language

their user language categories have the format "User xx" while in my installation the categories are created with the format "Xx".

Version: REL1_22-branch
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Reference: bz60161

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:01 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-Babel.

• bzimport set Reference to bz60161.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Qgil created this task.Jan 17 2014, 6:15 AM

(In reply to comment #0)

For what is worth I can see a couple of diferences between my stock
installation and what meta.wikimedia.org and mediawiki.org have:

[...]

In case it helps, https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt contains Wikimedia's Babel extension configuration.

(In reply to comment #1)

In case it helps, https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt
contains Wikimedia's Babel extension configuration.

Thank you, that explains the "User xx" vs "Xx" difference.

I still wonder whether, according to the current Babel implementation, an equivalent to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Users_by_language should have been created by the extension automatically or if it is expected that the site admins do this manually.

Iniquity moved this task from Backlog to Categories on the MediaWiki-extensions-Babel board.Oct 14 2017, 4:57 PM

Pppery closed this task as a duplicate of T33115: "Users by language" shouldn't be shown if the system is setup not to use categories.Jan 27 2023, 3:36 AM

Actually, on second thought, this is just related and not a duplicate.

Iniquity closed this task as a duplicate of T33097: Automatically created categories should be categorized: xx-y in xx, xx in <babel-footer-url>'s category.Jan 28 2023, 12:18 AM

(Agreed that this task covers no new ground that isn't covered by one or the other of those)

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