Amir, In Romanian, this kind of possible, but highly unlikely problem is called "drob de sare" (salt stone). I'll let you use your language skills to find out why :)
Let the community be and find their own ways to deal with the problem, if it ever becomes a real one. If one really wants to link to the sanskrit Wikipedia, it can do so using [[:w:sa:...]]. Bugs in Pwb can be solved if you log them - but does Tyap has any robots today? No need to have users in a new language write in English just because some problems might occur in certain very particular scenarios. My 2c, Andrei Pe sâmbătă, 4 iunie 2022, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> a scris: > Hi, > I've recently discovered that namespace names may have an ambiguity with interlanguage links: If a namespace name is the same as a language code, using it in wikitext poses all kinds of challenges. > Actual example: In the Tyap language (code kcg), the Wikipedia in which was created a few days ago, the Category namespace is called "Sa:", which is also the language code and, hence, the interlanguage link code for Sanskrit. > So, "Sa" is usable in wikitext, but has all kinds of little issues. For example, old-style non-Wikidata interlanguage links to Sanskrit from the Tyap Wikipedia are probably impossible. They are not very likely to be inserted into articles, but still, it's somewhat conceivable. I also noticed that it confuses Pywikibot in some ways. And I can imagine other subtle bugs that it will cause. > I've asked Tyap speakers whether it's possible to change the word for "Category" to something else. No—they want to use "Sa". It's legitimate not to want to change the word for a technical reason. > So what can be done? > The editors there told me that it's OK for them to use "[[Category:" in wikitext, but they would like to see "Sa:" in the title of category pages. I'm not sure that it's possible: as far as I know, the namespace name definition in MessagesKcg.php will be used for both things, and if Visual editor is used to add categories, it will add "[[Sa:". Bots or gadgets can be used to replace it to "Category", but is looks like an ugly hack. > Does anyone have better ideas for a robust, comprehensive solution? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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