User talk:Trappist the monk/Archive 13

Template:ISO 639 name

Hey, just want to verify with you, can Module:ISO 639 name handle what Template:ISO 639 name and its sub templates (such as Template:ISO 639 name aa) do? I would like to TfD the sub templates if so. --Gonnym (talk) 08:55, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

There are four testcases pages:

Template:ISO 639 name/testcases1

Template:ISO 639 name/testcases2

Template:ISO 639 name/testcases3

Template:ISO 639 name/testcases4

These currently use the {{ISO 639 name/sandbox}} which uses Module:ISO 639 name/sandbox. The module sandbox is, I think, and improved version of Module:ISO 639 name.

If you are expecting {{ISO 639 name/sandbox}} to return the same values for non-ISO 639 'codes' as some the existing templates do, you shall be disappointed. IETF language tags are not ISO 639 codes so the ~/sandbox returns an error message. The same is true when given a language name because again, a language name is not an ISO 639 code.

The module sandbox has a new function iso_639() that attempts to return either the code or the language name depending on what it is given (still working on this so these may or may not be working when you read this):

{{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639|Navajo}} → nv

{{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639|nv}} → Navajo

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Looking at the testcases and the templates, "Arabic" which isn't supported, is used by Template:ISO 639 name Arabic which redirects to Template:ISO 639 name ar which is. Similarly, Template:ISO 639 name ja-Latn an IETF tag redirects to Template:ISO 639 name ja which is supported. So it would seem that what's needed is to replace usages of redirected templates with the target template to fix these issues. Do you happen to have a list of the unsupported templates? If so, I can use AWB to fix these usages. --Gonnym (talk) 22:04, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

No list. And, it isn't immediately obvious how to make such a list. Both of intitle:"ISO 639 name" insource:/#[Rr][Ee][Dd][Ii][Rr][Ee][Cc][Tt]/ and insource:/#[Rr][Ee][Dd][Ii][Rr][Ee][Cc][Tt]/ prefix:"ISO 639 name" searches return nothing.

Special:PrefixIndex/Template:ISO 639 name (alas) won't show redirects only (they can be hidden ...). I suppose one might take that list and make a lua module. This appears to be a start:

function p.redirect()
	local data = {
		'ISO 639 name Arabic',
		'ISO 639 name AR',
		'ISO 639 name ar',
		'ISO 639 name ja-Latn',
	}
	local redirects = {};
	local name;
	
	for _, v in ipairs (data) do
		name = 'Template:' .. v
		if mw.title.new (name).isRedirect then
			table.insert (redirects, name);
		end
	end
	
	return mw.dumpObject (redirects)
end

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Trappist the monk (talk • contribs) 23:00, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

I've tried checking in Template:ISO 639 name if the page calling it is using a redirect template, and if so, add the page to the category, but it isn't working. Have any ideas on how it could work? --Gonnym (talk) 23:44, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

You reverted yourself with the edit summary nevermind, that works. Does it? Don't you want the names of the templates that are redirects? Why would you want the names of the articles that use those redirects? Article names seems to be what Category:Pages using ISO 639 name redirect templates is collecting.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:10, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

I needed the redirect templates to get the pages so I can replace the parameter used in these articles to a correct ISO 639 one, so this method also works. The only problem is that I have to manually go over ~1200 articles ({{Cleanup translation}}, {{Rough translation}} and {{ISO 639 name}} transclusions) and do with AWB an empty save which takes a lot of time since it stops me every few seconds. Do you have a bot that can do this faster? --Gonnym (talk) 00:16, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

If you can give me a list of articles, I have a null-edit bot task. Of course, you can just let the job queue take its course because there is no hurry.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:28, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

I know there is a bug that sometimes takes forever for the queue to work. It's been 7 hours and it still didn't start. Anyways, if you have time, I created a list of pages here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Gonnym (talk • contribs) 07:50, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Done. These didn't get done because they are protected:

Template:ISO 639 name

Template:ISO 639 name cs

Template:ISO 639 name el

Template:ISO 639 name en

Template:ISO 639 name grc

Template:ISO 639 name ja

Template:ISO 639 name ko-Hang

Template:ISO 639 name pt

Template:ISO 639 name ro

These didn't get done because:

La verdad sospechosa – has a {{bots}} or related template because of copyright violation investigation

User:JDrewniak (WMF)/wiktionaryDefinitionInSearchResults.js – is a personal javascript page

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! Fixed usages on all pages except one user page and Wikipedia:Template index/Redirect language codes – code sort. I think it's fine now to TFD the set and fine tune if successful. --Gonnym (talk) 12:40, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

@Gonnym: I have updated {{ISO 639 name}} to use Module:ISO 639 name. The update included function name changes. I think that I have found and fixed all of the templates that were temporarily broken because of the function name changes. I have also updated Template:ISO 639 name/doc and {{ISO 639 name/doc/row}}. You're redirect-detection code remains in {{ISO 639 name}}; it is the reason that the Western Frisian category link is broken on the ~/doc page.

So where to now? Figuring out where all of those 1100-ish templates in Category:ISO 639 name from code templates are transcluded looks like it will be painful. We might want to add some sort of category mechanism to those templates that would categorize their use: Category:ISO 639 name templates with valid codes for proper ISO 639-1, -2, -3, or -5 codes and Category:ISO 639 name templates with invalid codes for all others. But that isn't really easy. We could replace the plain-text language name in the templates with a call to {{ISO 639 name|<code-from-template-name>}} – relatively easy to accomplish with AWB. That gives us a test of all of the 'codes' being used; Module:ISO 639 name will categorize the 'errors' (IETF-like language tags, proper names, etc) so those can be fixed where they appear in article space (and perhaps in other namespaces). Once that is done, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:ISO 639 name will list where the template is transcluded so instances of {{ISO 639 name <code>}} can be replaced with direct calls to {{ISO 639 name|<code>}}.

All of this is, of course, predicated on a successful outcome at WP:TfD. Have I over-thought this? Under-thought this?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:56, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Great job! I think you exactly-thought this. I'll be nominating these templates today as I got another editor to help with his bot for tagging all these. Then we can do what you suggested with changing the template plain text so catch errors and see where they are used and once we're done with that we can convert the template to use the module directly. I believe the tracking category I added has done what it needed doing as I fixed the calls I could find, so I can remove it (unless I'm mistaken?). --Gonnym (talk) 09:14, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Created nomination at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 August 14#Template:ISO 639 name aa. --Gonnym (talk) 09:41, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

We might not need to edit all templates to find out if they are valid ISOs. Template:ISO 639 name conversion template doc which is transcluded on these templates has an if check to produce an EL. We can use the same logic to check if the ISO is valid or not. --Gonnym (talk) 11:13, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

What is needed is a list of where the {{ISO 639 name <code>}} templates are used so that they can be properly replaced. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:ISO 639 name conversion template doc lists only templates and a handful of other namespace uses. Error checking is handled by the module and will be reported in Category:ISO 639 name template errors. The errors that I expect to catch are likely to be the IETF-language-tags and those MediaWiki second level domain name codes misused as ISO 639 codes.

Yesterday I created an AWB script that gets the language code from the template name, writes the appropriate {{ISO 639 name|<code>}} template, and comments out the plain-text language name. I need to rework it a bit to account for the tagging that is being added.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:36, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

While reading on the discussion links you posted over at CfD, I noticed that the category Category:Articles containing Germanic-language text is empty and it text says that it is populated by {{Lang}} and it gives two examples: {{Lang|gem|text in Germanic language here}} and {{Lang-gem|text in Germanic language here}} but those place the article in Category:Articles with text from the Germanic languages collective and Category:Articles containing Proto-Germanic-language text (which itself is a bit problematic that two almost identical uses lead to different tracking results, but that's for another day). Was "Germanic-language text" an old category? The only place I can see which could have used it is Template:ISO 639 name/doc/row. If this is an old unused category, do you have any idea how we can find if there are more of those? --Gonnym (talk) 15:59, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, old. It was created as Category:Articles containing Germanic language text (no hyphen) 28 May 2013. The rendering of the text on that cat page depends upon {{Category articles containing non-English-language text}}, {{Category articles containing non-English-language text/core}}, and {{Category articles containing non-English-language text/inner core}}. These templates are a mess. The {{lang}} and {{lang-gem}} issues that you note plus off to the right the is a box that says 'This category is indirectly triggered by the templates' and lists {{ISO 639 name gem}} which is not true; none of the {{ISO 639 name ...}} templates categorize. I suspect that once the {{ISO 639 name ...}} TfD is put to bed, these three templates should be rewritten; Module:Lang/documentor tool might be a good place to start.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:39, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi. I don't know what you moved but now files like File:Schuman Declaration.ogg are displaying an error. © Tbhotch^™ (en-3). 15:54, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

Proofreader

In your edit of Template:Proofreader needed you kept it using the module, while I changed a few months ago Template:Proofreader category and Template:Proofreader category 2 to use the media wiki language magic word. I'm assuming these should use the same style, right? --Gonnym (talk) 15:45, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, languages supported by Media Wiki seems the better choice for {{proofreader needed}}. That template used to use the {{#ifexist:}} parser function to look for one of the now WP:TfD'd {{ISO 639 name <code>}} templates. My 25 October 2018‎ edit switched it to use Module:ISO 639 name which has a replacement function for {{#ifexist:}} (then: iso_639_name_exists(), now: iso_639_code_exists()). There isn't an equivalent facility for the #language: magic word. I can think of a couple of ways around that limitation:

{{#ifeq:{{#language:{{{2|}}}}}|{{{2|}}}|not supported|supported}}

Replacing {{{2|}}} with real and not-real language codes as a test:

{{#ifeq:{{#language:de}}|de|not supported|supported}}

supported

{{#ifeq:{{#language:notacode}}|notacode|not supported|supported}}

not supported

This also looks like it will work (probably not the better solution):

{{#if:{{#invoke:LuaCall|main|lang={{{2|}}}|mw.language.fetchLanguageName(lang)}}|supported|not supported}}

{{#if:{{#invoke:LuaCall|main|lang=de|mw.language.fetchLanguageName(lang)}}|supported|not supported}}

supported

{{#if:{{#invoke:LuaCall|main|lang=notacode|mw.language.fetchLanguageName(lang)}}|supported|not supported}}

not supported

You can make the change or I can, it matters not to me.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:31, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

If you can, I'd appreciate it. --Gonnym (talk) 08:30, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Final uses in other templates

I found that Template:Rough translation and Template:Cleanup translation still need to be updated to use new style as they call "ISO 639 name x". Verifying with you, the fix for these templates is just to replace {{ISO 639 name {{{1}}}}} with {{ISO 639 name|{{{1}}}}}? Also somewhat related, Template:Lang2iso has its own ISO database. --Gonnym (talk) 14:38, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

As long as x in {{ISO 639 name x}} is a valid ISO 639-1, -2, -3, -5 code (not an IETF language tag) then the fix is: {{ISO 639 name x}} → {{ISO 639 name|x}}

The likely fix for {{lang2iso}} is {{#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_name_to_code|<name>}}. But, {{lang2iso}} has about 6600 transclusions so some testing is warranted before we just replace all with the module invoke. I'll do that.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:08, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Another lost usage at Template:Category articles containing non-English-language text/core. Should {{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{{2}}}|{{#ifexist:Template:ISO 639 code {{{1|}}}|{{ISO 639 code {{{1|}}}}}|}}}} be {{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{{2}}}|{{#if: {{#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_code_exists|{{{1}}}}}|{{ISO 639 name|{{{1}}}}} }} }}? --Gonnym (talk) 15:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Apparently there are only two Template:ISO 639 code ... templates (search) so it isn't really clear to me why that bit of code is still there. ~/inner core evaluates {{{2}}} for length and when 2, uses {{iso639-1}} to create a link to Library of Congress or when 3 uses the ISO639-3 interwiki mapping to link to sil.org. So, all of that being said, I suspect that it might be best to add a function to Module:ISO 639 name: iso_639_name_exists(). If we do that then, in ~/core we write:

{{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{{2}}}|{{#if: {{#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_name_exists|{{{1}}}}}|{{#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_name_to_code|{{{1}}}}} }} }}

TfD the two {{ISO 639 code ...}} templates and we might want to consider revising {{ISO 639-1}}.

What am I missing?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:57, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, TfD those 2 lone templates is a good idea. What should they be replaced with? {{#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_name_to_code|{{{1}}}}} or {{Lang2iso}}? --Gonnym (talk) 16:46, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Replace them with nothing. At:

Category:Articles containing German-language text change:

{{Category articles containing non-English language text|German}} → {{Category articles containing non-English language text|German|de}}

Category:Articles containing Mohawk-language text change:

{{Category articles containing non-English language text|Mohawk||moh}} → {{Category articles containing non-English language text|Mohawk|moh}}

Then in {{Category articles containing non-English-language text/core}} replace:

{{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{{2}}}|{{#ifexist:Template:ISO 639 code {{{1|}}}|{{ISO 639 code {{{1|}}}}}|}}}} → {{{2|}}}

Right?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:05, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Ok, TfD and updated the code. --Gonnym (talk) 17:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

crude lang2iso tests

Nothing overly surprising here. I'm inclined to update the template to use the module and fix what needs fixing. Of the templates that use {{lang2iso}}, these appear to be the mode used:

• {{AFC submission/comments}} (24976)
• {{Infobox historic site}} (8826)
• {{Rough translation}} (621) – I thought you had edited this template ...

Clearly, since {{lang2iso}} has about 6600 transclusions, not all instances of the above make use of it.

aa	aa	aa	Afar
ab	ab	ab	Abkhazian
ae	ae	ae	Avestan
af	af	af	Afrikaans
ain	ain	ain	Ainu
ak	ak	ak	Akan
aln	aln	aln	Gheg Albanian
als	gsw	gsw	Tosk Albanian
am	am	am	Amharic
an	an	an	Aragonese
ang			Old English
ar	ar	ar	Arabic
arc			Official Aramaic	Aramaic is en.wiki preferred name
arn	arn	arn	Mapudungun
arz			Egyptian Arabic
as	as	as	Assamese
ast	ast	ast	Asturian
av			Avaric
av	av	av	Avaric
av	av	av	Avaric
avk	avk	avk	Kotava
ay	ay	ay	Aymara
az	az	az	Azerbaijani
az			Azerbaijani	Azeri redirects to Azerbaijanis (the people)
ba	ba	ba	Bashkir
bar	bar	bar	Bavarian
bcc	bcc	bcc	Southern Balochi
bcl			Central Bikol	central bicolano is a redirect to Central Bikol
be	be	be	Belarusian
bg	bg	bg	Bulgarian
bh			Bihari languages	ISO 639-2 collective; not an individual language code
bi	bi	bi	Bislama
bm	bm	bm	Bambara
bn	bn	bn	Bengali
bo	bo	bo	Standard Tibetan
bpy			Bishnupriya
br	br	br	Breton
bs	bs	bs	Bosnian
bto			Rinconada Bikol	iriga bicolano is a redirect to Rinconada Bikol
bug	bug	bug	Buginese
bxr			Russia Buriat	buryat (russia) is a redirect to Buryat
ca	ca	ca	Catalan
cdo	cdo	cdo	Min Dong Chinese
ce	ce	ce	Chechen
ceb	ceb	ceb	Cebuano
ch	ch	ch	Chamorro
cho	cho	cho	Choctaw
chr	chr	chr	Cherokee
chy	chy	chy	Cheyenne
co	co	co	Corsican
cop	cop	cop	Coptic
cr	cr	cr	Cree
crh	crh	crh	Crimean Tatar
cs	cs	cs	Czech
csb	csb	csb	Kashubian
cu	cu	cu	Church Slavic
cv	cv	cv	Chuvash
cy	cy	cy	Welsh
da	da	da	Danish
de	de	de	German
deva				script, not a language
deva				script, not a language
deva				script, not a language
deva				script, not a language
diq	zza	zza	Dimli
dsb	dsb	dsb	Lower Sorbian
dv	dv	dv	Dhivehi
dz	dz	dz	Dzongkha
ee	ee	ee	Ewe
el	el	el	Greek
eml			Emiliano-Romagnolo	not an ISO 639 language name; two related languages with codes egl and rgn
en	en	en	English
eo	eo	eo	Esperanto
es	es	es	Spanish
et	et	et	Estonian
eu	eu	eu	Basque
ext	ext	ext	Extremaduran
fa	fa	fa	Persian
fa			Persian	not an ISO 639 language name; redirect to Persian
ff	ff	ff	Fulah
fi	fi	fi	Finnish
fil	fil	fil	Filipino
fj	fj	fj	Fijian
fo	fo	fo	Faroese
fr	fr	fr	French
frc	frc	frc	Cajun French
frp			Arpitan	variant of alternate ISO 639-3 name Francoprovençal
frr			Northern Frisian
fur	fur	fur	Friulian
fy			Western Frisian
fy	fy	fy	Western Frisian
ga	ga	ga	Irish
gaa	gaa	gaa	Ga
gag	gag	gag	Gagauz
gan	gan	gan	Gan Chinese
gan			Gan Chinese	someone can't spell
gd	gd	gd	Scottish Gaelic
gl	gl	gl	Galician
glk	glk	glk	Gilaki
gmh			Middle High German
gn			Guarani	diacritic
got	got	got	Gothic
grc			Ancient Greek
gsw	gsw	gsw	Swiss German
gu	gu	gu	Gujarati
gv	gv	gv	Manx
ha	ha	ha	Hausa
hans				script, not a language name
hant				script, not a language name
hak	hak	hak	Hakka Chinese
haw	haw	haw	Hawaiian
he	he	he	Hebrew
hi	hi	hi	Hindi
hif	hif	hif	Fiji Hindi
hil	hil	hil	Hiligaynon
ho	ho	ho	Hiri Motu
hr	hr	hr	Croatian
hsb	hsb	hsb	Upper Sorbian
ht	ht	ht	Haitian Creole
hu	hu	hu	Hungarian
hy	hy	hy	Armenian
hz	hz	hz	Herero
ia			Interlingua	interlingua (international auxiliary language association); disambiguators required
id	id	id	Indonesian
ie	ie	ie	Interlingue
ig	ig	ig	Igbo
ii	ii	ii	Sichuan Yi
ik			Inupiaq	not an ISO 639 language name; redirects to Inupiaq
ik	ik	ik	Inupiaq
ilo	ilo	ilo	Iloko
inh	inh	inh	Ingush
io	io	io	Ido
is	is	is	Icelandic
it	it	it	Italian
iu	iu	iu	Inuktitut
ja	ja	ja	Japanese
jbo	jbo	jbo	Lojban
jut	jut	jut	Jutish
jv	jv	jv	Javanese
ka	ka	ka	Georgian
kaa	kaa	kaa	Kara-Kalpak
kar			Karen languages	ISO 639-2 collective; not an individual language name
kab	kab	kab	Kabyle
kg	kg	kg	Kongo
ki	ki	ki	Kikuyu
kj	kj	kj	Kuanyama
kj	kj	kj	Kuanyama
kk	kk	kk	Kazakh
kl	kl	kl	Kalaallisut
kl	kl	kl	Kalaallisut
km	km	km	Khmer
kn	kn	kn	Kannada
ko	ko	ko	Korean
kr	kr	kr	Kanuri
kri	kri	kri	Krio
krj	krj	krj	Kinaray-A
ks	ks	ks	Kashmiri
ksh	ksh	ksh	Kölsch
ku	ku	ku	Kurdish
kv	kv	kv	Komi
kw	kw	kw	Cornish
ky	ky	ky	Kirghiz
la	la	la	Latin
lad	lad	lad	Ladino
lb	lb	lb	Luxembourgish
lbe	lbe	lbe	Lak
lez	lez	lez	Lezghian
lfn	lfn	lfn	Lingua Franca Nova
lg	lg	lg	Ganda
li	li	li	Limburgan
lij	lij	lij	Ligurian
lld	lld	lld	Ladin
lmo	lmo	lmo	Lombard
ln	ln	ln	Lingala
lo	lo	lo	Lao
loz	loz	loz	Lozi
lt	lt	lt	Lithuanian
lu	lu	lu	Luba-Katanga
lv	lv	lv	Latvian
lzz	lzz	lzz	Laz
mad	mad	mad	Madurese
mai	mai	mai	Maithili
mc				not an ISO 639 language name; not an ISO 639-1 language code
mdf	mdf	mdf	Moksha
mg	mg	mg	Malagasy
mh	mh	mh	Marshallese
mi			Maori	diacritic
mi	mi	mi	Maori
mk	mk	mk	Macedonian
ml	ml	ml	Malayalam
mn	mn	mn	Mongolian
mni	mni	mni	Manipuri
mo	ro	ro	Moldavian	mo is retired
mr	mr	mr	Marathi
ms	msa	msa	Malay
ms			Malay	not an ISO 639 language name; Malasian language suggests zsm Standard Malay
mt	mt	mt	Maltese
mus	mus	mus	Creek
mwl	mwl	mwl	Mirandese
my	my	my	Burmese
myv	myv	myv	Erzya
mzn	mzn	mzn	Mazanderani
na	na	na	Nauru
nah	nah	nah	Nahuatl languages
nap	nap	nap	Neapolitan
nb	nb	nb	Norwegian Bokmål
nb			Norwegian Bokmål	diacritic
nb			Norwegian Bokmål	diacritic
no	no	no	Norwegian
nd	nd	nd	North Ndebele
nds	nds	nds	Low German
ne	nep	nep	Nepali
new			Nepal Bhasa	Newar is en.wiki preferred name
ng			Ndonga	redirects to Ovambo which describes multiple related languages
ng	ng	ng	Ndonga
niu	niu	niu	Niuean
nl	nl	nl	Dutch
nn			Norwegian Nynorsk	variant of ISO 639-2 nynorsk, norwegian
nn	nn	nn	Norwegian Nynorsk
nn			Norwegian Nynorsk
non	non	non	Old Norse
nov	nov	nov	Novial
nr	nr	nr	South Ndebele
nrm	nrm	nrm	Narom
nso	nso	nso	Pedi
nv	nv	nv	Navajo
ny	ny	ny	Nyanja
oc			Occitan	occitan (post 1500), disambiguation required
och			Old Chinese	not an ISO 639 language name; article prefers lzh
oj	oj	oj	Ojibwa
om	om	om	Oromo
or	ory	ory	Oriya
or	ori	ori	Oriya
os	os	os	Ossetian
pa	pa	pa	Panjabi
pa	pa	pa	Panjabi
pag	pag	pag	Pangasinan
pam	pam	pam	Pampanga
pap	pap	pap	Papiamento
pdc	pdc	pdc	Pennsylvania German
pdt	pdt	pdt	Plautdietsch
pfl	pfl	pfl	Pfaelzisch
pi	pi	pi	Pali
pi			Pali	diacritic
pih	pih	pih	Pitcairn-Norfolk
pl	pl	pl	Polish
plm	plm	plm	Palembang	not an ISO 639 language name; not an ISO 639 language code; article prefers mui
pms	pms	pms	Piedmontese
pnt	pnt	pnt	Pontic
pra			Prakrit languages	ISO 639-2 collective; not an individual language code
ps	ps	ps	Pushto
pt	pt	pt	Portuguese
qu	qu	qu	Quechua
rif	rif	rif	Tarifit
rm			Romansh	not an ISO 639 language name
rm			Romansh	not an ISO 639 language name
rmy	rmy	rmy	Vlax Romani
rn			Rundi	en.wiki preferred spelling
ro	ro	ro	Romanian
roh	rm	rm	Romansh
ru	ru	ru	Russian
ruq	ro	ro	Megleno Romanian
rw	rw	rw	Kinyarwanda
sa	sa	sa	Sanskrit
sah	sah	sah	Yakut
sc	sc	sc	Sardinian
scn	scn	scn	Sicilian
sco	sco	sco	Scots
sd	sd	sd	Sindhi
sdc	sc	sc	Sassarese Sardinian
se	se	se	Northern Sami
sei	sei	sei	Seri
sg	sg	sg	Sango
sh	sh	sh	Serbo-Croatian
shi	shi	shi	Tachelhit
si	si	si	Sinhala
si	si	si	Sinhala
simple				not an ISO 639 language name; MediaWiki second-level domain name for simple.wikipedia.org
sk	sk	sk	Slovak
sl			Slovenian	en.wiki preferred spelling
sl	sl	sl	Slovenian
sm	sm	sm	Samoan
sma	sma	sma	Southern Sami
sn	sn	sn	Shona
so	so	so	Somali
sq	sq	sq	Albanian
sr	sr	sr	Serbian
srn	srn	srn	Sranan Tongo
ss	ss	ss	Swati
st	st	st	Sotho
st	st	st	Sotho
stq			Saterfriesisch	en.wiki preferred name
su	su	su	Sundanese
sv	sv	sv	Swedish
sw	swa	swa	Swahili
szl	szl	szl	Silesian
ta	ta	ta	Tamil
te	te	te	Telugu
tet	tet	tet	Tetum
tg	tg	tg	Tajik
th	th	th	Thai
ti	ti	ti	Tigrinya
tk	tk	tk	Turkmen
tl	tl	tl	Tagalog
tlh	tlh	tlh	Klingon
tlh			Klingon	redirect to Klingon
tn	tn	tn	Tswana
to			Tongan	Tongan is en.wiki preferred name
tpi	tpi	tpi	Tok Pisin
tr	tr	tr	Turkish
ts	ts	ts	Tsonga
tt	tt	tt	Tatar
tum	tum	tum	Tumbuka
tw	tw	tw	Twi
ty	ty	ty	Tahitian
tyv			Tuvinian	not an ISO 639 language name; redirects to Tuvan
tzm			Central Atlas Tamazight	redirects to Central Atlas Tamazight
udm	udm	udm	Udmurt
ug	ug	ug	Uighur
uk	uk	uk	Ukrainian
ur	ur	ur	Urdu
uz	uz	uz	Uzbek
ve	ve	ve	Venda
vec	vec	vec	Venetian
vi	vi	vi	Vietnamese
vls	vls	vls	Vlaams
vo	vo	vo	Volapük
vo			Volapük	diacritic
vrm				not an ISO 639 language name; not an ISO 639 language code
wa	wa	wa	Walloon
war	war	war	Waray
wo	wo	wo	Wolof
wuu	wuu	wuu	Wu Chinese
xal	xal	xal	Kalmyk
xh	xh	xh	Xhosa
xmf	xmf	xmf	Mingrelian
ydd	ydd	ydd	Eastern Yiddish
yi	yi	yi	Yiddish
yo	yo	yo	Yoruba
yue			Yue Chinese	not an ISO 639 language name; article suggest yue also used at Yue Chinese
za	za	za	Zhuang
zea	zea	zea	Zeeuws
zh	zh	zh	Chinese
zu	zu	zu	Zulu

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

comparison {{lang2iso}} against {{#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_name_to_code|<name>}}

Expected?	lang2iso	iso_639_name_to_code	Language name	comment
als	gsw	gsw	Tosk Albanian	lang2iso is wrong; alemannic is Alemannic German ISO 639-2, -3 code gsw
diq	zza	zza	Dimli	dimli is an exact match for one of the names associated with ISO 639-2 zza; ISO 639-2, -3 name for diq is 'Dimli (individual language)'
nb	nb	nb	Norwegian Bokmål	bug: override namelists are searched first; norwegian bokmål overrides ISO 639-2 primary 'Bokmål, Norwegian'
ne	nep	nep	Nepali	nepali is an exact match for ISO 639-2 nep; ISO 639-1 ne is 'Nepali (macrolanguage)'
st	st	st	Sotho	ISO 639-2 override list to override 'Sotho, Southern' has code sot; ISO 639-1 st is 'Southern Sotho' for consistency should be overridden to 'Sotho'; ISO 639-3 'Southern Sotho' is overridden to 'Sotho
sw	swa	swa	Swahili	exact match for ISO 639-2 swa; ISO 639-1 (sw), -3 (swa) name is 'Swahili (macrolanguage)'
ms	msa	msa	Malay	exact match for ISO 639-2 may(B) and msa(T); ISO 639-1, -3 name is 'malay (macrolanguage)'
or	ory	ory	Oriya	exact match for ISO 639-3 ory; ISO 639-1 name is 'odia (macrolanguage)'
or	ori	ori	Oriya	exact match for ISO 639-2 ori; ISO 639-1 or and -3 ori name is 'oriya (macrolanguage)'; ISO 639-3 ory name is 'oriya (individual language)'
roh	rm	rm	Romansh	exact match for ISO 639-1 rm and ISO 639-2, 3 roh
ruq	ro	ro	Megleno Romanian	lang2iso is wrong; there are two #switch cases for romanian: | romanian=ro precedes | romanian=ruq
sdc	sc	sc	Sassarese Sardinian	lang2iso is wrong; there are two #switch cases for sardinian: | sardinian=sc precedes | sardinian=sdc

Why are the above not producing the same result? And assuming both are correct, does it matter for the output? Template doc says it returns a two letter language code, but some of its return values are three letters, so I'm not sure what is going on there. Maybe it prefers to return a two letter language code if available, if not then it returns a three letter one? --Gonnym (talk) 09:30, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

I've added explanations to your table. There is a disclaimer in the module doc about the usefulness of iso_639_name_to_code(): <language name> must exactly match the name in the data tables.

The bug is that the code searches all of the override tables before searching the individual parts. It should search override 1 then part 1, override 2 then part 2, ... I'll fix that and add 'Sotho' as a part 1 override.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:29, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

So to change the template, it should go from {{safesubst<noinclude/>:#switch: {{safesubst<noinclude/>:lc:{{{1}}}}} to {{#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_name_to_code|{{{1}}}}? Is the safesubst needed? is the lowercase needed or does the module handle this? --Gonnym (talk) 10:07, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Using {{ISO 639 name}} as a model, it would seem that this is what you want:

{{safesubst:<noinclude />#invoke:ISO 639 name|iso_639_name_to_code}}

The module converts all input to lowercase.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:38, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from hu

@Trappist the monk and Gonnym: is the above anything to do with why the non-existent Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from hu is now filling up? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:20, 24 August 2020 (UTC) See also Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_cleanup_after_translation_from_de, Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_cleanup_after_translation_from_it, Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_cleanup_after_translation_from_fr etc. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:27, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

{{rough translation}} was looking for a return from a template called {{ISO 639 name hu}} but that template no-longer exists so {{rough translation}} fell back to using the raw value i{{{1}}} in the category name. I think that this has been remedied. Editor Gonnym last edited {{rough translation}} at 0611Z; {{ISO 639 name hu}} was deleted at 2150Z, 15h39m later. The red-linked translation categories did did not start accumulating articles until after {{ISO 639 name hu}} was deleted. Your revert of Gonnym's edit was unwarranted because, as this case shows, it is not always true that what you see is the result of the last edit made to a template.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk, I was simply trying to fix the problem. Purging the pages didn't fix anything, so I looked for the most recent changes to relevant templates. Thanks for sorting it out. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:42, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Additional issues

It seems that all languages which have "Language" as part of the name, are redlinks because the name is now "Name Language language":

• Kenyan Sign Language
• Indus Valley Language

While this can be fixed by creating that redlink, is that the best solution?

Also, "fif" appears in Module:Language/data/iana languages but {{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|fif}} produces an error Faifi. Any idea why? --Gonnym (talk) 12:36, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Is Category:Articles containing unknown ISO 639 language template populated by {{Lang}} as the category text says? Couldn't find it in Module:Lang. --Gonnym (talk) 13:02, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Module:Language/data/iana languages is used only for the ISO 639-1 codes/names it contains. fif is new as of 2020-05-06 according to Change Request Documentation: 2019-041 at sil.org. The ISO 639-3 data are taken from sil.org UTF-8 Complete Code Tables Set which was last updated 2020-01-30. I notice that this file has fif but is not dated so it isn't possible to know before hand if it is time to update our data modules – the dated zip has the imprimatur of 'official'.

I'll tweak the module to properly handle names that end with 'Language'. I'll probably also tweak Module:Lang. Indus Valley Language redirects to Harappan language so that can be handled in the override data.

The wikitext version of {{lang}} did populate Category:Articles containing unknown ISO 639 language template. Because Module:Lang emits error messages and populates Category:lang and lang-xx template errors, there was no need to also populate Category:Articles containing unknown ISO 639 language template. CfD?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:33, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for all above. Another few questions:

• Should {{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|vsv}} and {{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|pys}} result in Llengua de signes valenciana and Lengua de Señas del Paraguay or Valencian Sign Language and Paraguayan Sign Language?
• Should {{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|cpe}}, {{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|cpf}}, and {{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|cpp}} which currently result in English based Creoles and pidgins French-based Creoles and pidgins and Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins result instead in English-based creole language, French-based creole languages and Portuguese-based creole languages?
• Should {{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|sgn}}, which currently results in Sign Languages, result instead in Sign language?
• Module:Language/data/iana is empty, but was it meant to serve the same purpose as Module:Language/data/iana languages? Do you think I can CfDTfD (fixed) it?

--Gonnym (talk) 15:55, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

And a few more answers:

• this is the English Wikipedia so English names are probably best; these can be overridden to use en.wiki preferred names
• these can be overridden to use en.wiki preferred names
• sgn is an ISO 639-2 collective code so Sign Languages is correct; the singular form would, I think, convey a different meaning. If it becomes an issue, a redirect to the correct article is probably the correct answer
• No knowledge about Module:Language/data/iana; you may not CfD it. WP:TfD?

With regard to overrides: just because we can doesn't mean that we should. If there is a need then, of course, override; no point in adding an override if it is never used.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:28, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Is the performance cost a lot for an override? --Gonnym (talk) 09:38, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

When doing code-to-name look-ups there is minimal pain; when doing name-to-code lookup, the current code must read each k/v pair in an override table (pairs()) until it stumbles upon the input name. Large tables take longer. I have thought about modifying Module:Language/data/ISO 639 name to code/make so that it includes override data in Module:Language/data/ISO 639 name to code. Doing that would change the laborious name-search to a simple lookup.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:23, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

I see. Well, your idea for the refactor sounds good, so it can wait til whenever you do that. Is the dab fixes not being done also for the same reasons? --Gonnym (talk) 12:22, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Partly; if there isn't a need ... Additionally, the dab list is complicated so is a pain to figure out. For example:

{{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|amy}} → Ami – probably override to Marranj language

{{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|hbo}} → Ancient Hebrew – no clearly obvious article as a link target

{{#invoke:ISO 639 name/sandbox|iso_639_code_to_name|link=yes|toi}} → Tonga – override in the article_name{} table

I suppose that one way around the dab issue is to modify |link=: if |link=<article title> (any value that is not yes) link with that.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

OK, then I'll document the known issues in a module subpage so at least it's somewhere editors can see. --Gonnym (talk) 13:13, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

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Template:Category articles containing non-English-language text

Unresolved

Template:Category articles containing non-English-language text should have a language check so unsupported (probably old) categories can be added to the error category and then CfD. Can you add one? --Gonnym (talk) 12:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

I'll think about that —Trappist the monk (talk) 13:46, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Added error messaging and categorization to {{Category articles containing non-English-language text/inner core}}. For the nonce, uses Category:Lang and lang-xx template errors (21).

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:42, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Of the categories accumulating in Category:Lang and lang-xx template errors, some are valid errors while others (most?) are ISO 639-2/B codes. These -2/B codes are not found in Module:Language/data/iana languages because the -2/T codes are preferred. The fix for these categories is to replace the -2/B code with its matching -2/T code.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:25, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

I was wondering what the point is even in listing the other ISOs as they don't seem to do anything or appear in the text. See Category:Articles containing Korean-language text which has 5 codes but only 1 appears in the text. But if possible, we can even go further and eliminate the need to list any ISOs. If we take the the name appearing after the "containing" and before the "-language text", and pass it to the module, it should be able to give us whatever data we needed. So if we only show one parameter, we can request the ISO code by the language name. Did I miss something here? --Gonnym (talk) 18:19, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Oh, aye, I wondered something similar though didn't pursue it as far as you did. Were it me, I think that {{Category articles containing non-English-language text/inner core}} would have one positional parameter: an IETF language tag (language tags are easily internationalized, language names not so much).

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:05, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Could you explain the internationalization issue? {{ISO 639 name|fn=iso_639_name_to_code|Literary Chinese}} -> lzh so this already works. Or did you mean something else? --Gonnym (talk) 08:49, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

A rather large number of templates get copied from en.wiki to other-language.wikis. I suspect that it is unlikely that {{Category articles containing non-English-language text/inner core}} will be one of those, but as a general principle, because the Wikipedia community is multi-lingual, we should be in the habit of writing templates and modules with that in mind. ISO 639 language codes are standardized and international so we should use them in preference to the English names for languages.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:06, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Ah, I see. The problem with that is that if someone would to fix Category:Articles containing Classical Chinese-language text and remove "zh-classical" then the category won't appear in the error category, but it should as the correct category that uses that ISO is Category:Articles containing Literary Chinese-language text. So the error check isn't completely helpful. An example: Category:Articles containing Classical Gaelic-language text isn't in the error category but it's empty as the correct category is Category:Articles containing Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic-language text. --Gonnym (talk) 10:32, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

I guess I don't understand the point you are trying to make. zh-classical is not a valid IETF language tag so {{lang}} will never add Category:Articles containing Classical Chinese-language text to any article. 'Classical Chinese' is not a language name known to {{lang}}. Similarly, 'Classical Gaelic' is not a language name known to {{lang}}. Categories using the {{Category articles containing non-English-language text}} that cannot be populated by {{lang}} serve no purpose so should be CfD'd. The act of CfDing these may have some benefit. If, for example, in the eyes of en.wiki, 'Classical Gaelic' is a synonym for 'Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic', we can fix that and whatever associated redirects to get readers to the appropriate article (those decisions are outside my bailiwick). Further, because 'Classical Chinese' and 'Classical Gaelic' are not known to {{lang}} we cannot fetch a code from the name:

{{#invoke:lang|tag_from_name|Classical Chinese}} → Error: language: Classical Chinese not found – ha! a bug because:

{{#invoke:lang|name_from_tag|zh-classical}} → Error: unrecognized language tag: zh-classical

this tag/name pair exist in Module:Language/data/wp_languages with a group of other non-standard (mostly MediaWiki) tags

{{#invoke:lang|tag_from_name|Classical Gaelic}} → Error: language: Classical Gaelic not found

So I've rambled here not really knowing what it is that I'm responding to, so, can you restate your objections?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:27, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

I agree with what you wrote above and you seem to be agreeing with what I said, so I'll I'try and explain again. The category name should match the ISO code. We currently have categories such as the Classical Chinese and Classical Gaelic which don't match. I wanted to have a piece of code that will add them to the error category so it will be easier to find them (instead of browsing a list of 1k+ categories) and then CfD them. The code you added does not currently accomplish this. What it checks is if the user who added the template used a correct ISO code. However, that code can be correct and the category name incorrect, or both can be correct but not belonging to each other. In both of those situations the category won't appear in the error category. The only way (I see) to do this, is to check if the category name itself is correct. That is why I proposed we check if the language name in the title appears in an ISO list. That might have internationalization issues, but it's better than not being able to find these errors. Did I explain it better? --Gonnym (talk) 11:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

The category name should match the ISO code. No. The category name should match what en.wiki editors have determined is the appropriate name. While I would prefer that articles and categories all use the name defined in the standards, editors here don't agree. This is why we have Module:Lang/data so that Module:lang can override standardized names with en.wiki preferred names.

When you proposed the test, I did not understand that you wanted a 'language-name test'. I'll think about that.

When I first mentioned internationalization, I was referring to a rewrite of {{Category articles containing non-English-language text}} so that as input it would accept only one positional parameter, an IETF language tag from which the template would get the en.wiki sanctioned language name.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

This is why we have Module:Lang/data so that Module:lang can override standardized names with en.wiki preferred names. - I'll correct myself. I meant that. My point was that the category name should match the category in which Module:lang places the pages using the specific code in. So if I create a category called "Articles containing Trappist-language text" and add {{Category articles containing non-English-language text|fr}}, which is a valid ISO, the page still gets placed in the error category as {{lang|fr}} does not populate the "Articles containing Trappist-language text" category. Is that more clear? --Gonnym (talk) 13:15, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Template:Lang2iso errors

Resolved

There are ~2.3k pages in Category:ISO 639 name template errors, almost all of them because of Template:Lang2iso which we'll need to figure out how to clear.--Gonnym (talk) 12:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

The instances that I checked in Category:ISO 639 name template errors (I only checked a few) used {{lang2iso|}}. We could probably use awb to change that form of the template to {{lang2iso|undetermined}} or we could change {{lang2iso}} to include |{{{1|undetermined}}}

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:46, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Which one do you think is better? I'll note that if we add that as default to the template then we won't get the error "error: language name required" if that is important. Also, if we go AWB, can your bot help? As 2.3k is a bit too much for me to do manually. --Gonnym (talk) 11:51, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

The awb solution because that will give future editors (at least those conscientious editors who preview their edits) a chance to fix whatever they are doing before they publish. I could write a bot task to make those changes but for 2k or 3k edits it hardly seems worth it. Bot tasks take time to get through WP:BRFA. The job could be finished (using the same code) before BRFA gets started.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:17, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Category:Iso 639 name template errors (lower iso)

Resolved

Template:Rough translation is placing pages in Category:Iso 639 name template errors (lower iso) but I can't seem to find where in any code this category is generated. --Gonnym (talk) 12:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Bump in case you missed this before. I still cannot find this anywhere. --Gonnym (talk) 11:52, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

{{#language:{{lang2iso|{{{1}}}}}}}

When {{{1}}} is a code, not a language, then:

{{#language:{{lang2iso|ru}}}} → <span style="font-size:100%;" class="error show_639_err_msgs">error: ru not found in iso 639-1, -2, -2b, -3, -5 list ([[template:iso 639 name|help]])</span>[[category:iso 639 name template errors]]

{{#language:}} returns what it gets in lowercase:

{{#language:BLAH}} → blah

The hint was the help text redlink.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:43, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Ok, so either Module:ISO 639 name or Module:Mw lang need a "is_name_exists" function so a language name can be checked. --Gonnym (talk) 14:40, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

No. The {{rough translation}} template documentation (which, like most template documentation, sucks) says that {{{1}}} is for the language name – doesn't say whether that name it the English-language form of the name, the exonym ... Optional {{{2}}} is (presumably, because the documentation isn't explicit about this either) the endonym. The code:

{{#language:{{lang2iso|{{{1}}}}}}}

does work when given the correct input:

{{#language:{{lang2iso|Russian}}}} → русский

I have created iso_639_name_exists() in Module:ISO 639 name and is_name() in Module:Mw lang. I should also do that for Module:Lang. I should also harmonize function names across the three modules. I'm not feeling particularly motivated to fix {{rough translation}}. I'll leave that for someone else...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:58, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Template talk:Lang2iso#Template-protected edit request on 30 August_2020. --Gonnym (talk) 08:32, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

And I think I fixed {{Rough translation}} to support both names and ISOs. --Gonnym (talk) 09:21, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Good. I've answered the edit request.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:55, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Module:Language/name

Resolved

Found Module:Language/name which seems to duplicate Module:ISO 639 name. Am I correct? If so, is there anything to merge or just a simple replacement? I'll TfD it based on your response.

Module:Language/name has three operating modes (functions); according to these search results, only simple() is used so instances of this module could be replaced. {{expand language}} refers to other-language Wikipedias so the {{proofreader needed}} fix ought to work. This is another of those that would benefit if I finish Module:Sandbox/trappist the monk/mw lang ...

• simple
• fuzzy
• formal

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:46, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Should this be replaced with {{mw lang}} or {{ISO 639 name}}? --Gonnym (talk) 11:48, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Doesn't the answer to this question require knowledge of where the replacement is to be? If the template that uses Module:Language/name is Wikipedia specific then the answer would be {{mw lang}}. In other use cases, it might be {{lang}} or it might be {{ISO 639 name}}. Looking at that sentence, it strikes me that {{ISO 639 name}} should be renamed {{ISO 639 lang}} ...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:05, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Your search results above showed it was only used in Template:Expand language, so my question was regarding that. (regarding the name, probably correct, but should be a separate header to keep things clean-ish). --Gonnym (talk) 13:18, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

It was used twice. Switched both to {{Mw lang}}. Will TfD it later after the /text module TfD is over. --Gonnym (talk) 13:33, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2B

I have a question regarding Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2B, how does this relate to Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2 now? I see all of the entries of 2-B are still in the general one. --Gonnym (talk) 17:20, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

So that when desired, editors may ask iso_639_name_to_code() to return either the -2B or -2T code for a language that has both. Module:Language/data/ISO 639 name to code lists one -2 code for languages that have -2B and -2T codes. As it is right now, editors can't be expected to know which of -2B or -2T which will be returned. Here are two examples:

{{ISO 639 name|fn=iso_639_name_to_code|Albanian|2}} → sqi a -2T code

{{ISO 639 name|fn=iso_639_name_to_code|Czech|2}} → ces a -2B code

Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2 still has both because I don't want to break anything while I still haven't yet figured out how the various module functions will use the -2B module.

For Module:Language/data/ISO 639 name to code, I want to figure this out before I modify Module:Language/data/ISO 639 name to code/make to include the -2B data and the override data in the table that it creates.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:56, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

ISO 639 error cleanup

1. Is it possible to add a parameter so pages like Template:ISO 639 name/doc won't show up in Category:ISO 639 name template errors? I'm trying to clear out that category and since the /doc page has an example of an error it shows up there. |hide-err= won't help here, as the /doc wants to show the error, I just don't want it to cause the page to appear in the tracking category.
2. Template:Lang-eml is unused so valid for TfD, but I was wondering if that is even a valid code? The template error says it isn't but I'm double checking.
3. The Template:User mo family of templates is showing an error because it can't find "mo", since "mo" is a deprecated language code of Moldovan language. I was looking at this and this and I'm wondering if these codes should still be in our files? Or maybe in a case-by-case situation? The LoC says for "mo/l" The identifiers mo and mol are deprecated, leaving ro and ron (639-2/T) and rum (639-2/B) the current language identifiers to be used for the variant of the Romanian language also known as Moldavian and Moldovan in English and moldave in French. The identifiers mo and mol will not be assigned to different items, and recordings using these identifiers will not be invalid., while for "sr" is says ISO 639-2/B code deprecated in favor of ISO 639-2/T code. What do you think?
4. Uses of {{Lang2iso}} without a parameter are starting to appear in the category. I know it's being added via Template:Afc decline but I can't find where the template is used so I can set the default value. Can you help me locate it?

--Gonnym (talk) 13:10, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Answers:

1. yes; I also want to add a help link to the template doc page
2. eml is the second level domain name for the Emilian-Romagnol Wikipedia consequently, {{#language:eml|en}} → Emiliano-Romagnolo looks like a valid ISO 639 code; it is not. TfD
3. added mo to Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override; I'll add the other 639-2, -3 codes presently. For sr, the 639-2/B code scc doesn't appear to be used anywhere. Do you know of some place where it is used? If there is a need, scc can be added to the override
4. Part of the difficulty is because {{Afc decline}} is normally substed? In that template, {{lang2iso}} is used to create an inter-language interwiki-link so {{Afc decline}} should properly be using the data behind {{#language}}. Time for a new template/module pair perhaps. Module:Citation/CS1 does this so I can adapt code from that to this task. I suppose it would be a parallel to {{ISO 639 name}}

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:27, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

I TfD Lang-eml. I don't know of any other deprecated codes, including sr, that are in use, but they might be. 'mo' was in the error category which is why I saw it. I'm setting |cat=no but the page is still in the error category. What am I doing wrong? --Gonnym (talk) 17:54, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

I broke it.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Fixed I think (sometimes the brain just doesn't work) so I think that the error handling is done for now. Nor does the brain remember stuff. In March this year I wrote Module:Sandbox/trappist the monk/mw lang. I don't remember doing that ...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:26, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Good job with the fast fix though :) OK, it seems this is a never-ending wack-a-mole game. Found a few more templates that still used the ISO 639 name x version and fixed the easier ones.

Template:Lang/old and Template:Lang/sandbox2 - can they be TfD?

Template:Uselanguage can you tell how to replace the code there? As a related note, it seems a very old version of that template had messed up code and placed the entire switch in the user pages such as User talk:Qbamin~enwiki. I'd guess that a majority of the transclusions of Template:Iso2lang is because of that.

--Gonnym (talk) 20:13, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, TfD those two.

I suspect that {{Uselanguage}} can be fixed with the same tricks as you used in {{proofreader needed}} (§Proofreader).

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:16, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

I don't know how to get the verification if the wiki language is correct (#ifexist:Template:ISO 639 name {{{1|notarealpage}}}) to work. Proofreader doesn't have this check so it just creates an invalid link. Any ideas?

Also, it was pointed out in Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 August 27#Template:Lang-eml that "eml" is one of the deprecated ISOs ([1]) and that language does have a wiki article at Emilian-Romagnol language. If the template does not get deleted, then it should probably be added to the deprecated list. --Gonnym (talk) 23:35, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

This older version of {{proofreader needed}} used the {{#ifexist:Template:ISO 639 name {{{2|}}}|...|...}} construct. So, wouldn't the pertinent bit be written:

{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />#ifeq:{{#language:{{{1|}}}|en}}|{{{1|}}}|[[Image:Information.svg|25px|alt=|link=]]Please do not contribute text in a foreign language to English Wikipedia. Your contributions are more than welcome at a [[List of Wikipedias|Wikipedia in your language]].|Please do not contribute text in {{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />#language:{{{1}}}|en}} to English Wikipedia. Your contributions are more than welcome at [[:{{{1}}}:Main Page|{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />ISO 639 name {{{1}}}}} Wikipedia]].|}}

That is why we have TfD. Let the community have their say and we shall act accordingly.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:05, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

I'm a bit lost here. User:Gonnym/sandbox/tests4 has a simple {{#language:{{{1|}}}}} in it.

--user sandbox deleted -

I'm not sure how checking for #ifeq:{{#language:{{{1|}}}|en}}|{{{1|}}} will work. --Gonnym (talk) 09:19, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Maybe Module:Language/data/wp languages can help? (also, is Module:Language/name/data working correctly? Seems strange that /wp languages is used 1,150,000 pages times). --Gonnym (talk) 09:32, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Didn't we discuss this at §Proofreader? It ain't perfect (another reason for me to finish Module:Sandbox/trappist_the_monk/mw_lang). {{#language:<lang code>}} returns the language name when <lang code> is a recognized code; when not a recognized code, returns <lang code>. With {{#ifeq:...}} we can test the returned value:

--user sandbox deleted -

The problematic one here is French though it won't break {{Uselanguage}}.

I have no reason to believe that Module:Language/name/data is not working correctly. Modules other than Module:Lang use it (Module Lang accounts for 1.1 million of those transclusions). Were it up to me I would get rid of Module:Language/data/wp languages because its provenance is unknown.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:52, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Completely forgot about that discussion. I (think) I fixed both Proofreader and Uselanguage. Regarding Module:Language/data/wp languages, I'm not sure how to check where its used because of the high amount of transclusions from the /data sub module. --Gonnym (talk) 12:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

{{mw lang}}

• {{#if:{{mw lang|fn=is_code|1}}|supported|not supported}} → not supported
• {{#if:{{mw lang|fn=is_code|fr}}|supported|not supported}} → supported
• {{#if:{{mw lang|fn=is_code|French}}|supported|not supported}} → supported
• {{#if:{{mw lang|fn=is_code|dog}}|supported|not supported}} → not supported

I've changed {{proofreader needed}} to use this template.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:08, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Nice! I'll update the others later today. --Gonnym (talk) 08:45, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Category is almost clear. One more template to fix and a few more pages. Could you edit User talk:Keeper76/Archive 13 and User:JDrewniak (WMF)/wiktionaryDefinitionInSearchResults.js to remove them from the category? They are both protected so I can't. --Gonnym (talk) 00:05, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

User talk:Keeper76/Archive 13 done. Can't do the other because I don't have (or want) interface admin rights. You'll have to talk to the page owner or get an en.wiki interface admin to tweak the code. Java script is not my thing so I can't explain why {{language}} is being executed (must be or the error cat would not exist).

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:41, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Left him a message. Only errors left now are you for talk and sandbox, so whenever you don't need those with errors feel free to fix them :) --Gonnym (talk) 16:19, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Arbitrary break

OK, so we've done quite a lot so far. Current issues below:

1. Found Module:Language/text which says its meant as a replacement for all lang-x templates, which Module:Lang does. Am I correct? If so, I'll TfD it also.
2. I'll fix the old usages of Template:Uselanguage which were incorrectly subset in articles.
3. I'm 2/3 of the way done mapping the languages that lead to dab pages to their correct article location.

--Gonnym (talk) 12:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Answers:

1. Module:Language/text is not used so TfD because Module:Lang
2. good
3. been watching

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:46, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Mind if I refactor our discussions on this page to move discussions into their separate sections? Will make it easier to find and comment (and I know this is my fault its like this:) ). --Gonnym (talk) 11:01, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

As it pleases you, so long as nothing is deleted.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:27, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Module:Language

Unresolved

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have a feeling that Module:Language and Module:Language/data are not general-language modules but instead used only for Wiktionary templates. transcludes Module:Language and what transcludes Module:Language/data show only Wiktionary templates, as does the text in the /doc of both modules. If that is the case, it should be moved to Module:Wiktionary (the current unused module there can be TfD). Am I correct here? --Gonnym (talk) 12:10, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

I think that you are probably correct that Module:Language is Wiktionary-specific. That module has a whole passel of subpages that may or may not be used by that module. I know that Module:Wiktionary was an attempt to resolve issues around italicization in {{Wiktionary}}; that process got mired in the squabble over how to represent the defined word ... A well advertised discussion is warranted if you think that this is an important issue.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:01, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Continuing from the above point. Seeing as how Module:ISO 639 name also serves Template:Lang2iso (so basically, "ISO 639 code"), would Module:ISO 639 be more correct? And if so, should we then move the language data modules such as Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2 to Module:ISO 639/ISO 639-2 so all related ISO 639 would be in one logical place? As currently we have three different places where we have ISO 639 related code, the name module, subpages of Language, and Module:Lang/ISO 639 synonyms. --Gonnym (talk) 16:30, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

I guess I don't have a clear sense for what should be done, if anything. Its sort of messy but it works. Almost any data module that Module:Lang, Module:ISO 639 name, and Module:Language need is there. I can imagine splitting the content so that there are separate structures for ISO 639 data modules and IANA data modules. Do we need to do that? What other language data is going to be needed in the future?

I suspect that data modules that are specific to an executable module, should be segregated as subpages of their associated executable modules. Module:Lang/data and Module:Lang/ISO 639 synonyms are already segregated for Module:Lang. Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override should probably be moved so that it is a subpage of Module:ISO 639 name.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Bot solving CS1 problems

Hey there, Trappist!

Lately I've been developing a bot (using a simple find and replace pywikibot) to help solve some problems with the CS1 module in SqWiki. Currently, what it does is that:

1. It converts English language names into universal 2 characters ISO codes, solving the "unknown language error" and aiding in i18n;
2. It removes deprecated parameters like "ref=harv", "ref=harvnb";
3. It removes CS1 categories added "manually" (not automatically by the module, what we talked the last time);

Now, regarding this subject, I have a few questions:

• I'm still not totally sure what to do with 3 characters ISO code languages. Do they somehow require any kind of maintenance? Why are we tracking them? Strange question: To your knowledge/beliefs, is there any hope for "total standardization" in the future among the number of characters in ISO codes AND among some language codes used my Wikimedia (therefore removing the need for remapping and hacking)?
• Currently the bot converts ONLY English language names into 2 characters ISO codes (those that can be converted into 2 characters, as I said, I'm not yet sure how to deal with the 3 characters ones). That's because most of our articles come from EnWiki. The ideal solution would be for it to be able to convert all language names in ALL languages into 2 characters ISO codes. Therefore it would provide maintenance even to articles coming from other languages (and maybe it could do its job even on other wikis? - Not sure if that function would be needed among other wikis). The problem is that I simply don't know how other languages are called in other languages. This is the list I used in designing the conversion: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages. By using the same list, I can make the French and German conversion possible but that's where I stop. And I can probably fill in the Albanian list by using that template you've suggested I import before but I don't know of any way how I can fill in the remaining languages. Any thoughts on that?
• I'm a little surprised a bot like this has not been created yet in EnWiki (to my knowledge) considering the vast amount of bots you have running here. For me, I was motivated to create it after spending countless hours just converting English language names into ISO codes to solve those errors but maybe that's not a big problem here. Anyway, the question is: Do you think this bot would be useful outside of SqWiki? Do you think it's a good thing if we globally strive to use ISO codes for languages in our Wiki communities so it helps (a bit) with i18n? I mean, of course, in communities that already rely on CS1 module for most of their citations. Or would that approach provide problems I haven't thought of yet? Of course, other fixing functions mentioned above could also be imported globally, no? The fact that there is yet no bot helping globally with CS1 module problems (I emphasize: To my knowledge) makes me think that there are problems in that approach I haven't thought of but maybe it's just that no one had found the time yet to deal with it. What do you think?
• And lastly, what are some kind of CS1 problems (errors and maintenance) that could be fixed with a bot apart from what I'm already solving? I mean, of course a simple bot can't really put the name of a missing original title (when the translated one is there) because it goes beyond simple regex-es but maybe it can help in some other problems? Maybe the bot could go beyond using simple regex-es somehow and help even with problems like those? I'm open to brainstorming (and to learning, as I've only lately just started dealing with bot design). - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:51, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) User:BattyBot's task 25 fixes dates. The bot's description has a link to the code that it uses. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:35, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: thank you! Apparently there are more than date fixes there. I'll give a thorough look at the code it uses to hopefully import it to my bot too. Hopefully, it won't require too many changes/adaptions. - Klein Muçi (talk) 15:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Answers:

• Hoping that WikiMedia will ever standardize on ISO 639 language codes and names is, I think, a forlorn hope. Therefore, it will always be necessary to remap and hack.
• The Library of Congress list is a good list for ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 codes and names but, cs1|2 only accepts ISO 639-2 codes and names that are also supported by MediaWiki. I suspect that the English-language version of the data behind the {{#language:}} magic word is the most complete mapping of codes ↔ names at MediaWiki so I think that those data should be the data source for your bot. The ideal solution would be for it to be able to convert all language names in ALL languages into 2 characters ISO codes. Ha! Not likely. There are 100-ish ISO 639-5 codes, 7600-ish ISO 639-3 codes, 500-ish ISO 639-2 codes, but only 180-ish two-character ISO 639-1 codes. It is not possible to map all of those three-character codes to two-character codes. I have tweaked the en.wiki copy of Module:cs1 documentation support so that function lang_list() accepts |lang=<code>. With that, you can get a list of what MediaWiki thinks are the language names for the <code>'s language: Albanian in Spanish is (according to MediaWiki) albanés. This is not a perfect system. If a MediaWiki list of language names for a particular language is incomplete, MediaWiki will fall-back to some other language list (probably the English list).
• At the moment, Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language doesn't have many articles listed (206) – someone is keeping its count low. For such a low article-count, I don't see a need for a bot. Use your bot outside of sq.wiki? I don't know, that is really an issue for those other-language wikis. I don't see a use for it here. I do think that in cs1|2 and any other template that does anything with language names, the preferred method for communicating the name to the template should be with IETF language tags so that i18n isn't an issue. I would wish that MediaWiki would adopt such a standard but I won't hold my breath (forlorn hope that I mentioned earlier). Global bot? I think this unlikely. Perhaps if all installations of the cs1|2 module suite were identical except for what can be configured in ~/Configuration then I suppose some sort of bot is possible. Perhaps when (if) global modules/templates become a reality... I think that the only pseudo-global bot working on some facet of cs1|2 problems is IAbot and that really isn't about cs1|2 problems per se, but about deceased urls that can be coupled to an |archive-url=.
• I don't have an answer. The missing language param category is your biggest. Maybe you can derive cues about the language from |title= by inspecting the words that make up the title; of course you don't really know if English words in |title= actually reflect the language in which the source is written ...

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:52, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

It looks like I still have a lot to study about language names and their conventions regarding corresponding codes in technical environments. I'll try to make use of your new tweaking, maybe that's exactly what I needed. (Most likely I'll be back here asking for help on how to do that exactly but I'll try it alone first. :P )

Yes, I was thinking the sames about global bots and IABot (being the only one). If global versions of CS1 modules are all updated, I think bots helping in a global scale with minor fixes could help keep the error/maint categories empty. But keeping the modules up to date globally would be the biggest challenge to overcome. Maybe I'm getting a bit too enthusiastic here but how about we start keeping track of CS1 modules in a global scale in Meta? Maybe we could notify communities en masse when a new update was coming and keep track of how that goes globally, their specific changes they would ask for, etc. Then we could talk with more confidence about global-related problems and solutions. Do you think that thing could be possible and inside your scope of interest?

Yes, that's the biggest problem in SqWiki and the first motivation for creating the bot. It was this discussion that inspired the bot. Unfortunately what's described there it's outside of my actual technical capabilities so I was forced to at least deal with the unknown languages.

Finally, can you explain me in a very short way, why do we keep track of articles using 3 character ISO codes? Maybe you already did so above, but I was bombarded with new information regarding languages and apparently I have missed this. - Klein Muçi (talk) 17:15, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

While I would like to see cs1|2 be more globally useful, I am not much interested in the bureaucracy and drama that comes from disparate user-interests bickering over some point or other. This is why I almost never participate in RfCs and other such community driven decision making.

Why do we categorize anything? Because someone might find it useful? It isn't harmful, so I don't see much point in withdrawing the categorization.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:28, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

I fully understand what you mean. And I didn't meant to remove it. I just thought that maybe it was there in need of some attention to get some kind of fix. As always, thank you for your answers! :)) - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:47, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Prakrit link

Can a fix be applied to Prakrit?

• {{lang2iso|Prakrit}} - does not work
• {{ISO 639 name|pra}} - leads to Prakrit languages

--Gonnym (talk) 09:41, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

pra is a collective code so the proper use for {{lang2iso}} is:

{{lang2iso|Prakrit languages}} → pra

—Trappist the monk (talk) 09:51, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

I know, but it's used in an infobox and the input a user used was the one without the "languages" part and the article also doesn't use it, which was why I asked. --Gonnym (talk) 09:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

This is about Mithila (ancient city), {{Infobox historic site}}, and {{ConvertAbbrev}}? Use Prakrit languages. I don't think that we should override the names for collective codes unless there is a very compelling reason to do so.

{{Infobox historic site}} should probably not be using {{lang2iso}} to feed {{lang}} and/or {{lang-??}} templates because similar but different data sets. Instead, the infobox should be calling {{lang}} functions so that the same data set is used throughout:

{{lang|fn=tag_from_name|Prakrit languages}} → pra

Yeah, I know, small quibble ...

I have voiced this before at some other infobox talk page: a utility that accepts native-name-of-thing with matching native-language name or native-language code that then calls Module:Lang to render native-name-of-thing appropriately. There is a first hack at that utility in Module:Lang/utilities/sandbox native_name_lang(). Infoboxen have a variety of ways that they handle native-names-of-things; that variety could/should be standardized.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:27, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, it was regarding those pages you listed above. Looking at Module:Language/data/ISO 639-5 I am wondering if maybe we can adjust how it works to something similar to what you do in the lang_name_get function. Search for either the name or name without the word "languages". Could something like that work? Also, why are the datasets for the lang family different? --Gonnym (talk) 11:47, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

We strip parenthetical disambiguation from language names because ISO 639 disambiguators are unlikely to match any disambiguators or redirects that en.wiki has:

{{ISO 639 name|ang|raw=yes|link=yes}} → English, Old (ca.450-1100)

So, yeah, we could strip languages from collective-code names but what is the very compelling reason to do so?

{{Lang}} doesn't understand either of ISO 639-2B and -5 and derives almost all of its code/name pairs from IANA's language-subtag-registry file; the mapping there is sometimes different from the ISO 639 sources. I think that in the future, {{lang}} should stop (will stop) using Module:Language/name/data which combines IANA with ISO 639-3 and Module:Language/data/wp languages so that {{lang}} relies solely on the IANA data – after all, the primary purpose of {{lang}} is correct html markup and html specifies the IANA data.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:07, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Removal of protection and redirect

Sir the account " Divya Agarwal " has been redirected to another page and protected. She is a notable actress . I want to create a proper web page for her. Since you are a administrator it's my humble request that you either delete or remove protection from this page. Thank you Rjidindiana (talk) 09:07, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Before it can be done there needs to be an article to replace the redirect. See WP:YFA for how to do that. If the article is accepted, editors who accept your draft can help you with the redirect and protection issues.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Sir I do have the article ready to replace but the problem is that an article already exists of that name which has no details. It is also protected because of which I cannot make edits. If the new draft which can be replaced is accepted it be issued in my username and not "Divya Agarwal". That's why I am requesting you to delete this page. Kindly help Rjidindiana (talk) 14:12, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Also the page 'Divya Agarwal' was created by someone else and later some people made unnecessary edits. Rjidindiana (talk) 14:14, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

If your sandboxed article is accepted, work with the editors who accepted it to see that it is moved out of your sandbox to the proper title.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:11, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

General formatting script

Hi, Trappist the monk, I need your help regarding a script. You know general formatting script changes crore/lakhs to million, but about Indian articles, it's not preferable. I derived a script from this see User:Empire AS/General formatting.js. However, I wanted to remove the changing of crores into millions. I've tried to do it manually, but I know nothing about developing scripts. Can you tell me what to remove or add to just remove this units changing? Thank you. Waiting for your reply. --Empire AS ^Talk! 02:13, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Empire AS, it is a false statement that crore is preferred. See WP:COMMONALITY. --Izno (talk) 13:53, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Izno, Indian articles should have crore and lakhs in them. See [2] and MOS:INDIA also. Empire AS ^Talk! 02:44, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

You know general formatting script changes crore/lakhs to million... Actually, I don't know that; what make you think that I do? I don't know why you are asking this question of me, I am not the author of that script. Shouldn't questions about a particular be directed to the author of the script?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:59, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Trappist the monk, The script author isn't active for a while. As you replied me on the talk page of MOSNUM dates script, therefore, I thought that you would know about it too.I came here as I think that you may know how to correct a script and know how to remove that units changing. That's all. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 02:50, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

The correct person to help you with that script is the script's author. It does not make sense to me that there would be two versions of the script that do markedly different things. Because others will be using the unmodified script, it is best to get assistance from the script's author. Failing that, perhaps discuss at WP:IANB.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:24, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Trappist the monk, I'll not say it's my work but derivatived from original script. The 2 scripts will work the same except changing units. And the work is so tiny, that only the you have to tell me only section that should be removed that works of changing? Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 11:28, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

But that's the problem, isn't it? The two scripts will not work the same way because your script will be different. You visit an article and use your script to modify the article (retaining crore/lakhs). Then someone else comes along and uses the original script and modifies the article again (converting crore/lakhs). If the original script doesn't do the right thing, talk to the script's author and get the original script repaired else you and others will find yourselves repairing articles that shouldn't need repairing.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Trappist the monk, Original script does the right. Because, million is preferred over crore in many articles but, in South Asia, crore should be used. Okay, I'll ask the author to help if they can. Thank you. Empire AS ^Talk! 02:07, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Dʰéǵʰōm

I fixed my error on this page; it was simply a typo, and I smacked myself for not using the Show Preview button. I also sent another reply by ping, but in case that doesn't work because you don't have a regular user page, have sent this one too. You can just delete it otherwise.) The page should now look the same as before I touched it.

Ira

Ira Leviton (talk) 20:03, 13 September 2020 (UTC)