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Bug 22286 - New alias for Category namespace,
New alias for Category namespace,
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2010-01-27 11:32 UTC by praveenp
Modified: 2010-01-28 13:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description praveenp 2010-01-27 11:32:37 UTC
After unicode 5.1 some Malayalam characters can be written in two different encoding. Our current category namespace uses one such character. We need alias in other encoding also. Current category namespace in pre-unicode 5.1. 

So please create an alias for വര്‍ഗ്ഗം as വർഗ്ഗം

Affected project: ml.wikipedia.org

Please check http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/184440 also
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2010-01-27 11:34:23 UTC
Please provide a link to community consensus for this change.
Comment 2 praveenp 2010-01-27 11:47:12 UTC
Actually both are same. But one in unicode 5.0 and other in unicode 5.1

Anyway there is a consensus on switching completely to unicode 5.1

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Panchayath_%28Technical%29/Unicode_5.1.0
Comment 3 praveenp 2010-01-27 11:52:32 UTC
And please add alias for Category talk = വർഗ്ഗത്തിന്റെ സംവാദം
Comment 4 Roan Kattouw 2010-01-27 12:03:15 UTC
Both aliases added.
Comment 5 praveenp 2010-01-27 12:21:11 UTC
I'm sorry. I afraid I checked using old encoding. Alias for Category_talk = വർഗ്ഗത്തിന്റെ_സംവാദം not working. But main problem in categorisation solved. very very thanks
Comment 6 Roan Kattouw 2010-01-27 13:37:57 UTC
Forgot to replace the space with an underscore, should work now
Comment 7 praveenp 2010-01-27 14:57:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Forgot to replace the space with an underscore, should work now

Yes. Tested. Fine. Thank you again
Comment 8 Siebrand Mazeland 2010-01-28 07:02:51 UTC
This is not the way to create generic namespace aliases. Now something appears to work fine on Wikimedia projects, but if users download their own copy of MediaWiki, it will not work. Please take it out of the WMF config and put it in MessagesMl.php.
Comment 9 praveenp 2010-01-28 10:33:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Please take it out of the WMF config and put it in
> MessagesMl.php.

That is true. I always think around Wikipedia. :-(
Comment 10 Roan Kattouw 2010-01-28 13:04:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> This is not the way to create generic namespace aliases. Now something appears
> to work fine on Wikimedia projects, but if users download their own copy of
> MediaWiki, it will not work. Please take it out of the WMF config and put it in
> MessagesMl.php.

Done in r61631. I deployed this rev and removed the aliases from the WMF config.

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