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Replace existing text for Babel categories
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Feature request: currently on Wikidata, which is a multilingual website, there have been a lot of language categories created with type "Category:User xx" and with the header "Users in this category indicate they have knowledge of language <language>" which is populated from MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels. I have had to replace many of these headers with a separate template called Template:Babelcat for the purposes of localization, but it was extremely tedious to do by hand and I've never finished since.

My proposal is to make the category header "Users in this category indicate they have knowledge of language <language>" localizable. To do this, I propose making the script User:Babel AutoCreate run through already existing Babel categories again to update them with localizable messages through MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels. Or have it run when the text in MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels is replaced with Template:Babelcat.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: https://www.wikidata.org

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:01 AM
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If it's still needed any bot can do it.

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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM
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It's extremely unsafe to let an automated bot overwrite the text of multiple categories.

Agreed. Any wiki that wants to do this can run a bot locally. Wikidata is probably the wiki best at running bots. Proposing to decline,

Created a separate task on how this problem can be solved in the future: T328193.