Awaiting on the hiwiki community, for [[bugzilla:4676]]. This ticket is opened to target a specific namespace alias, and to keep the rest of the other namespace aliases untouched.
Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: enhancement
URL: https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%81
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Reedy | T6676 Interwiki prefix c: should be available as a shortcut for commons: | |||
| Resolved | None | T63431 Remove C namespace alias from Hindi Wikipedia | |||
| Resolved | None | T31940 Enable namespace aliases for on hi.wikipedia.org (hiwiki) |
Change 113656 had a related patch set uploaded by Gerrit Patch Uploader:
Remove C: namespace alias (for categories) from hiwiki config
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #2)
Please link to the on-wiki discussion about this change.
Still under discussion, but here's the permalink to the comments so far:
Although I personally have no problem with this, I find this bug a little premature. This bug has been filed on the assumption that hi.wp is the only project using C: as a shortcut. http://tools.wmflabs.org/pirsquared/c.txt shows that this is not the case. Until there is a consensus across other projects using C: as a shortcut to use it as an interwiki alias for commons, any discussion on hi.wp about keeping/removing this alias would be futile.
The discussion here is very fragmented, so not sure where this comment should be placed, but I will just say that the uses of C: on Commons are not a problem, as Commons does not require this interwiki to itself. "c:" can be renamed away using the same code path as for "s:" on Swedish Wikipedia.
(In reply to Siddhartha Ghai from comment #4)
Although I personally have no problem with this, I find this bug a little
premature. This bug has been filed on the assumption that hi.wp is the only
project using C: as a shortcut. http://tools.wmflabs.org/pirsquared/c.txt
shows that this is not the case. Until there is a consensus across other
projects using C: as a shortcut to use it as an interwiki alias for commons,
any discussion on hi.wp about keeping/removing this alias would be futile.
The Hindi Wikipedia is the only wiki using it as a namespace alias, but other wikis do indeed have pages starting with "C:" (some are redirects to categories, some are articles, some are redirects to articles e.g. [[C:]]).
I agree that this requires more consensus.
Just a note that Mayur (an admin on the Hindi Wikipedia) indicated in c29 on bug 4676 that they have no problem with switching it off as a namespace alias.
(In reply to Scott Martin from comment #7)
Just a note that Mayur (an admin on the Hindi Wikipedia) indicated in c29 on
bug 4676 that they have no problem with switching it off as a namespace
alias.
Actually Mayur is a former admin and a retired user.
Sorry, I could have been a lot clearer. Mayur's recent comment was to reiterate one that he made in the original 2011 RfC on Meta, when he was still an admin and bureaucrat on hiwiki. I don't believe that their position has changed since then.
As an update for developers, the RfC has now concluded with a consensus for implementing the new Commons prefix, so could you please merge the patch for this.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikimedia_Commons_interwiki_prefix
Change 113656 merged by jenkins-bot:
Remove C: namespace alias (for categories) from hiwiki config
(In reply to Gerrit Notification Bot from comment #11)
Change 113656 merged by jenkins-bot:
Remove C: namespace alias (for categories) from hiwiki config
Can this bug report be marked resolved/fixed, then?