Last modified: 2014-04-19 04:36:33 UTC
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.
Change 113656 had a related patch set uploaded by Gerrit Patch Uploader: Remove C: namespace alias (for categories) from hiwiki config https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/113656
Please link to the on-wiki discussion about this change.
(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: https://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=विकिपीडिया:प्रबंधक_सूचनापट&oldid=2304603#Requests_for_comment.2FWikimedia_Commons
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 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/113656
(In reply to Gerrit Notification Bot from comment #11) > Change 113656 merged by jenkins-bot: > Remove C: namespace alias (for categories) from hiwiki config > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/113656 Can this bug report be marked resolved/fixed, then?