Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Miscellaneous/Enable wiki URL changes

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Enable wiki URL changes

Problem: From no later than year 2006, a number of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have been trying to change their language code. However, even after more than 1.5 decades, due to a number of technical roadblocks, this is not currently possible, and the only site that have gone through such process, from be-x-old to be-tarask, is under a perpetual state of technical failures, for example Content Translation tool still fail to function properly for the wiki due to the change in code from a decade ago.
In order to fix the editing environment of such the renamed wiki, and to correct the name and language codes of all the wikis that are currently having various problems with their current name/url/language code, it is necessary to clear those long-standing technical roadblocks, and also to prevent new ones from being created.
It might be a bit too large of a project for the Community Tech team to clear all of the blockers, but there should be a number of those blockers that the Community Tech team should be able to help clear, thus making the goal of changing the name, language code, and URL of different Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects much easier.
Examples of affected site (While most of the following used Wikipedia URL as example, other non-Wikipedia sites for these languages are also being affected, and in some cases are also blocking the creation of new projects for these languages due to intention to avoid related technical troubles):

Proposed solution: Resolve as much bugs in phab:T172035 as possible, in accordance with the Community Tech team's capability.
Who would benefit: All readers and editors of affected wiki, all future developers of tools for the MediaWiki software, and all users of affected languages across the globe (Since Wikipedia language codes are sometimes being taken as de facto standard for languages by others far beyond just the Wikipedia itself, instead of the base BCP-47 standard, fixing these language codes will also promote fixing them everywhere else across the internet or even off the internet)
More comments: This is a resubmission of wish from 2019 Community Wishlist and based on a proposal written in the sandbox.
Phabricator tickets: phab:T172035
Proposer: C933103 (talk) 12:10, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Have you ever read Limits_to_configuration_changes#Changes_that_are_likely_to_be_stalled,_though_not_declined? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:30, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Please be noted that I mentioned "It might be a bit too large of a project for the Community Tech team to clear all of the blockers, but there should be a number of those blockers that the Community Tech team should be able to help clear" so I do not expect the Community Tech Team to totally resolve the issue, but rather help resolve as much parts of it as possible, in accordance with their capability. C933103 (talk) 03:12, 17 January 2022 (UTC) Edit: highlight added: 04:30, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@C933103 If so then your proposal is OOS for CWS, move to Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Archive or not? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:20, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@MusikAnimal: In the current form, isn't this "On roadmap of another team"? This looks like something that server admins should focus on, instead of Community Wishlist team. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 05:33, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Is it on the roadmap of another team? If it is, then yes we can archive it as there's no reason to vote on this wish. Otherwise, as the proposer states, we might be able to help with some of the subtasks, but certainly not the whole wish. It is rather odd for our team, though, since we generally build new products or have some sort user-facing deliverable. Here we'd just be assisting with some busy work that may actually result in the wish being resolved at some later time in the future. Peculiar for us, but not necessarily out of scope in my opinion. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:46, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
So far as I know, this one is not on anyone's roadmap to actually do anything about. Izno (talk) 22:27, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Izno phab:T30443 told me that @Vladimir Alexiev: is probably handling this one subtask, as they re-triaged the priority of it from Lowest to High. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 02:23, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so, there has not been change on that task for some time. Izno (talk) 04:42, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This is an unacceptable state of affairs that has gone on for far too long. In particular, the situation where a Wikipedia language edition (be-tarask) is experiencing ongoing technical failures, rendering parts of the software unusable, is entirely unacceptable. The Community Tech team could play a valuable role as "shepherds", taking ownership of the issue and making sure that the different WMF teams come together to get it resolved. IThis, that and the other (talk) 13:00, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@This, that and the other: Would you like to take over this wish? As I have exceeded the number of permittable proposal. You can take over the wish by changing the proposer name to your's. C933103 (talk) 13:43, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@C933103 It's alright, we up'd the limit to 10! That rule only ever existed to ensure proposers are responsive. You are being responsive, so there's no problem :) MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 20:20, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 18:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Majavah (talk!) 18:51, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BrandonXLF (talk) 19:36, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support --Kusurija (talk) 22:15, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Izno (talk) 23:27, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lt2818 (talk) 06:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
since there are not only something need #operations' focus. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:06, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I doubt this will be a popular wish - these wikis are are, after all, small communities that sometimes lack technical capital, and are thus unlikely to vote here in droves - but I do hope it gets some attention from Community Tech nonetheless. This, that and the other (talk) 08:29, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:56, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arado Ar 196 (talk) 11:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — putnik 11:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support CptViraj (talk) 11:21, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 13:30, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BSMIsEditing (talk) 15:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support //Lollipoplollipoplollipop::talk 18:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wostr (talk) 19:46, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:59, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support → «« Man77 »» ^[de] 13:24, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KevinL (aka L235 · t) 20:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support The right language code is important Thingofme (talk) 01:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 12:12, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ruthven (msg) 12:18, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support the wub "?!" 14:24, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 17:52, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xavier Dengra (MESSAGES) 19:00, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trey314159 (talk) 00:05, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Uanfala (talk) 21:52, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support WikiAviator (talk) 15:41, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:42, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 02:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 05:41, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support – KPFC 💬 11:30, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 21:42, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Waldyrious (talk) 00:17, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 04:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support (I was alerted to this) Regardless of the merits of individual cases, this should in principle be technically possible. I'm actually surprised it apparently isn't. Seb az86556 (talk) 04:58, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 06:31, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — DaxServer (t · c) 21:15, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 05:26, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support paul2520 (talk) 15:36, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support lots of technical debt to cleanup —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 20:54, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:07, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ✍️ Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 19:22, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 01:25, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gaurav (talk) 06:36, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support stjn^[ru] 16:53, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]