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Wrong Wikipedia link under Chinese variants (and probably other languages) on Template:Foundation description

Latest comment: 5 months ago6 comments2 people in discussion

{{Foundation description}}, which is used on the home page, is showing a wrong Wikipedia link on my browser under Chinese (Hong Kong) locale. It links me to :w:zh-hant:, which doesn't exist and should be :w:zh: instead. Other users using a language with variants may face the same problem. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

A switch may help, but would not be able to cover all cases; I wonder if we can or should somehow query the site matrix for fixing language links. 1F616EMO (talk) 01:56, 7 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks again for the bug-report.

I believe you're right that a #switch would help, but I can't quickly find an easy copy&paste example to use...

I've tried testing it with this (adapted from m:Terms of use) after setting my own preferences to use zh-hant, but it doesn't work as I'd hoped/expected it to...

{{#switch:{{PAGELANGUAGE}} |zh-hans|zh-hant|zh-cn|zh-hk|zh-mo|zh-my|zh-sg|zh-tw = [[:w:zh:|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]] |#default = [[:w:{{int:lang}}:|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]] }}

I've asked the devs about the best way to set this up, so that it works for all variant languages.

And if there's nothing that works for all languages, then I could just set it to use www.wikipedia.org instead. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:55, 7 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't think checking against {{PAGELANGUAGE}} is the correct choice. On Home, it is always en, and on Home/zh, it is always zh. I think it would be correct to check against {{int:lang}}, where it emits variants such as zh-hant based on user preferences. That is, the code should be:

[[:w:{{#switch:{{int:lang}}|en=|zh-hans|zh-hant|zh-cn|zh-hk|zh-mo|zh-my|zh-sg|zh-tw=zh:|#default={{int:lang}}:}}|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]]}}

And it renders as:

Wikipedia

Which fixes my problem. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:30, 8 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done Aha! Thank you. Now updated.

I'll try to find the additional variant-languages that need to be added, later. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:55, 8 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Also, some Wikipedias are on the Incubator and some do not exist at all. We may have to deal with that and guide them to the Incubator or the English Wikipedia. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:49, 27 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Space missing in Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Office Actions Policy

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

A space is mysteriously missing here in translatable string no. 19, Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Office Actions Policy:

1F616EMO (talk) 16:33, 6 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done - Fixed, thanks for the note here. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:10, 6 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Can someone make a redirect on main namespace with something really short shortcuts, like TAIV policy or TAIV (or something really shorter than current redirects) to there? I miss the time I could do this myself... :P — regards, Revi 12:48, 28 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Revi C.: TAIV now exists :) RAdimer-WMF (talk) 14:26, 28 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Message documentations in Burmese

Latest comment: 2 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi, I found a few translation documentation pages (qqq) written in Burmese. Added by ZYX2233 probably by mistake in 2024. I suggest deleting them.

Samoasambia (talk) 18:34, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done - I've checked those and made sure they existed in the translated copy (one chunk transferred), and then deleted the mislocated duplicates. Thank you for mentioning. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

WIKIPEDIA MODERN RESTYLING AND REFRESHING

Latest comment: 4 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Wikipedia and Wikimedia content creators and readers, I wanted to create this topic discussion, asking about a modern and refreshing restyling of Wikipedia layout, which I think its too classic. Considering we are in 2026, I think Wikipedia needs a good modern layout, like other social or news apps. Thanks a lot for your attention Andre il sommo (talk) 11:17, 2 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Andre il sommo Hello, you may submit your suggestion through the Community Wishlist. SCP-2000 (talk) 15:02, 2 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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