MediaWiki:Portal being used in TWN inside Special:SupportedLanguages

MediaWiki:Portal being used in TWN inside Special:SupportedLanguages

Message portal ("Community portal") is being used inside Special:SupportedLanguages in the title= tags of links to language Portal pages. This is conflicting with its use in MediaWiki proper and with the message documenation (Display name for the 'Community portal', shown in the sidebar menu of all pages. The target page is meant to be a portal for users where useful links are to be found about the wiki's operation.

See also:

  • Portal ("Community portal")
  • Portal-url ("Project:Community portal")
  • Accesskey-n-portal ("")
  • Tooltip-n-portal ("About the project, what you can do, where to find things")) and leads to somewhat nonsential title tag texts in some languages, imho, since language names are appended disregarding any gramamtical structure.

It's likely better to use an own message there.

Possibly using this one was a typing error in the first place, anyways, and "MediaWiki:bw-sidebar-portal/Zxx" was meant with Zxx being the language code of the target portal page.

If noone objects, I shall try fixing it according to this idea.

Purodha Blissenbach23:53, 17 April 2011

Making it consistent with the sidebar seems fine.

Hamilton Abreu13:41, 18 April 2011

Yes indeed, but a closer look at the translatinos of message MediaWiki:Bw-sidebar-portal lets me doubt, it can be done this way. There are dynamic references, {{#languagename: {{UILANGCODE}} }}, which most likely will be parsed to something undesired in the context of the special page, I'm afraid.

Purodha Blissenbach14:28, 18 April 2011
Edited by another user.
Last edit: 16:36, 18 April 2011

The documentation says clearly not to use {{UILANGCODE there.

Nike14:45, 18 April 2011

Yes, I know, but some message texts may be older than this advice. Maybe fuzzying them would help?

Purodha Blissenbach16:33, 18 April 2011

Unlikely that all of them are older than that.

Nike16:54, 18 April 2011